Ancient Prompts-A technologist, a philosopher, and a theologian on being human in the age of AI

​The Festival of Thought is a series of events running across the Bay Area this fall, bringing technologists, philosophers, and theologians into public conversation about where technology is taking us.

​The Festival's premise: the Christian intellectual tradition has something coherent and compelling to say about the cultural questions everyone is already asking — and it's worth hearing whether or not you come from that tradition. Our evening at the Fox takes up one of those questions.

​The room will be mixed — technologists, students, church folks, the generally curious — and the conversation is built for all of them. The Question What does it mean to be human in the age of AI — and what does the Christian tradition have to say about it? Not "will AI take our jobs," not "is AI conscious." The harder question underneath both: as machines take over more of what we thought made us distinctive — reasoning, creating, judging, even conversing — what's left that's actually ours?

​The questions we now type into a machine are the ones humans have been asking for two thousand years. This evening puts the oldest answers next to the newest technology.