Digital Dignity Day
Join us May 2 in person or via livestream for a daylong conference exploring the impact AI is having on human dignity, part of the Markkula Center’s work in the international project New Humanism in the time of Neurosciences and Artificial Intelligence (NHNAI).
8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. PDT | Friday May 2, 2025
St. Clare Room, Learning Commons, Santa Clara University
Agenda | Registration | Speakers | Parking Map and Directions
Registration is free but is required. Lunch will be provided for those participating in the lunchtime roundtable session. See agenda for details.
Keynote Speaker
De-Coding our Humanity: Dignity and Fullness in the Digital Age
Dr. Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford Professor in Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures, Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh
In the pursuit of optimization of email using AI, something is lost: the human connection that makes communication meaningful.
Technologies can change the medium by which people experience personal leadership, but they shouldn’t be allowed to erase the personal connections so important to the human race.
We should not allow AI to become our parent, unable to make our own choices, forever trapped in an immature state, while the “automated adults” of AI take care of all the grown-up work.
Human dignity is taken to mean the inherent and equal worth of all humans in a moral-political sense.
Our digital world has provided us countless reasons to stereotype, vilify, and make an enemy out of anyone. Religions can be at the forefront of changing this.
A snapshot, one year after the public release of ChatGPT
