Date
12:00pm–1:30pm, Fri Mar 6, 2026
Address
Wist Hall
University Avenue
Honolulu, HI
Event Details
Join us for the EDEF Monthly Talk : “Buddhism, Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Education“
Friday, March 6, 2026, from 12:00 – 1:30 PM in Wist 131
Presented by Dr. Peter Herschock, Intercultural Philosopher and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the East-West Center
Artificial intelligence is being celebrated by techno-optimists as setting humanity on a glidepath into utopian futures of frictionless choice. Techno-pessimists warn that AI poses an existential threat to humanity and may curtail our abilities to choose our own futures. Distinguishing between AI tools and intelligent technology, this talk will take a middle path approach to reflecting on the personal and societal risks of AI-related cognitive atrophy, attention capture, and agential offloading as opportunities to reorient human-technology-world relations by valorizing commitment to effortful learning and the cultivation of freedom-of-attention and freedom-of-intention as our most fundamental ethical and evolutionary rights.
