McNair Lecture Focuses on Theology, Artificial Intelligence
October 24, 2017
“When we are creating our own images, we are replicating God’s creation,” Dr. Anne Foerst said at the John Calvin McNair Lecture at St. Andrews on Thursday evening. Students, faculty, staff, and community members from ages eighteen to eighty gathered to hear Foerst, Associate Professor of Computer Studies at St. Bonaventure University, discuss her research on the interplay between Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Theology. Foerst has served as director of MIT’s God and Computer Project, a dialogue between theologians at Harvard Divinity School and scientists at MIT. She advocates for
