God Human Animal Machine: AI & the Big Questions A Conversation with Meghan O’Gieblyn + Lee Spector 

Since our founding in 2019, the AI in the Liberal Arts initiative at Amherst College has worked to engage a thoughtful and interdisciplinary community in conversation and critical thought around artificial intelligence. We value exploring the complex and sometimes dizzying questions surrounding what the existence of artificial intelligence and its growing prevalence in our lives and work means for us as human beings. In 2022, we discovered a book that resonated with some our biggest questions and concerns and did so in entirely human way. The book was God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning (Penguin Random House, 2022), its author, Meghan O’Gieblyn.
AILA is over-the-moon to announce that author, essayists, and deep-thinker, Meghan O’Gieblyn will join AILA founder, Lee Spector in an evening of conversation about some of the big questions raised in her book and by everyday life in the age of AI.