Digital Dignity Day: De-Coding our Humanity

De-Coding our Humanity: Dignity and Fullness in the Digital Age
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Shannon Vallor (University of Edinburgh)

Professor Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford Professor in Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, unveils new work, inspired by Charles Taylor’s The Secular Age, on the evolution of the modern conception of the "coded human." After outlining this concept and highlighting its reinforcement by AI and other emerging technologies, Dr. Vallor will explore how it increasingly obscures our access to the experiences of human dignity and fullness, and how we might move beyond its limits.

3.31 Preface:    • Digital Dignity Day: De-Coding our Humanity  
12:24 Three Meanings of Code:    • Digital Dignity Day: De-Coding our Humanity  
17:15 The Coded Human:    • Digital Dignity Day: De-Coding our Humanity  
25.53 What Code Conceals:    • Digital Dignity Day: De-Coding our Humanity  
32.50 De-Coding our Humanity:    • Digital Dignity Day: De-Coding our Humanity  

Digital Dignity Day, a daylong hybrid conference held May 2, 2025, exploring the impact AI is having on human dignity. The event was part of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics 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

Learn more about Digital Dignity Day at: https://www.scu.edu/ethics/events/dig...