Jeanette Winterson | On AI’s parallels with religion and the need for alternative intelligence

This keynote on alternative intelligence from author Jeanette Winterson took place at Sana AI Summit on May 15 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden.

Jeanette Winterson OBE is a Sunday Times bestselling author and Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She is frequently published in the Guardian, Times, Observer, and New York Times. Some of Jeanette’s more recent works have explored our relationship to technology—the boundaries between humans and machines, the consequences of transhumanism, and the moral, societal, and ethical implications of AI. In 2021, Jeanette published 12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love, a collection of essays asking challenging questions about AI, humanity, art, and religion.

Timestamps
MC speaker introduction (00:00:00)
Telling the story backwards (00:02:51)
Neural trinity (00:04:13)
Fermi moment (00:04:42)
Humans as patterns (00:05:32)
Interconnectivity (00:06:14)
Historical insights (00:06:47)
Descartes’ ideas (00:07:23)
AI is non-binary (00:08:46)
AI bias (00:09:29)
Reimagining our existence (00:10:20)
Alternative intelligence (00:10:56)
New lifeform (00:11:20)
Human dystopia (00:11:53)
Miraculous AI (00:12:57)
Religious disruption (00:13:26)
Death redefined (00:13:57)
Science vs religion (00:14:55)
Living alongside AI (00:16:05)

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