Make AI the Best of Us
Santa Clara Magazine highlights SCU’s culture of collaboration as part of today’s artificial intelligence landscape. Experimenting with AI falls to students not only in engineering but throughout the campus curriculum, and SCU faculty regularly engage their classes in discussions about ways to make AI better. Ethics Center faculty, staff, and students are deeply involved in those conversations.
“I am very concerned about the hype factor of AI,” says David DeCosse, director of religious and Catholic ethics at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. “The idea that AI could achieve consciousness is being used as a means to solicit funding for corporate projects. That is very concerning. I worry about it being abstracted away from the human life experience.”
David DeCosse, director, religious and Catholic ethics, quoted by Santa Clara Magazine.