The Changing Face of Humanity | Week 3 - Creations in our Likeness, Imitations and Simulations 

What does it mean to be human when artificial intelligence is shaping our world? What can AI teach us about intelligence and the nature of knowledge and learning? The Changing Face of Humanity is a one-unit tuition free course that brings together artists, scientists, humanities scholars, engineers, social scientists and other distinguished faculty across USD's curriculum to discuss the different ways that disciplines embrace, reject, and question artificial intelligence and its impact on humanness and identity into the future in the context of the nature of knowledge and learning
In this summer class, faculty members introduce incoming first-year students to the different ways that academic disciplines help us develop critical intellectual skills so that we can make a sustained positive impact in the world. Taught remotely, this course will be highly participatory and introduce students to the interdisciplinary nature of a USD liberal arts education.
Week 3 - Creations in our Likeness, Imitations and Simulations
Speakers:
Brittany Asaro, PhD | Languages, Cultures & Literatures
Becoming Human: Pinocchio from His “Birth” to Today
Matt Ford, MFA | History
Afrofuturist Theory, Politics and Aesthetics Through the Lens of A.I.
Sophia Baik, PhD | Communication
The Issue of Deepfakes
Casey Dominguez, PhD | Political Science & International Relations
A.I. and Citizenship of the Future