Western Friend Podcast
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Western Friend Podcast
38. Brylie Oxley on Artificial Intelligence and Spiritual Technologies
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Mary Klein
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Brylie Oxley, Web Master for Western Friend for over a decade, joins host Jon Stoll and a live audience for a conversation on new technologies, artificial intelligence, and spirituality. Brylie also shares about a new tool that he developed, georgefox.chat, a chat bot primed and eager to discuss about Quakerism, George Fox, or any queries you may have.
You can access the chatbot here: georgefox.chat
You can read Brylie's article in the latest issue of Western Friend here.
Explore past episodes of the Western Friend Podcast here.
Introduction
On the idea of Spiritual Technologies
On weighing the positives and negatives of technology
What is Artificial Intelligence?
On technology and human connection?
On balancing optimism and careful, critical thinking
Can technology connect us to the divine?
Q&A - Technology, job replacement, and class disparity
Q&A - On ensuring accuracy with generative AI
Q&A - Ethical decisions for tech developers
Q&A - On developing georgefox.chat
Testing out the chat bot in community
Closing and outro