38. Brylie Oxley on Artificial Intelligence and Spiritual Technologies

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.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:33 On the idea of Spiritual Technologies
• 4:36 On weighing the positives and negatives of technology
• 7:03 What is Artificial Intelligence?
• 9:25 On technology and human connection?
• 14:08 On balancing optimism and careful, critical thinking
• 16:30 Can technology connect us to the divine?
• 22:48 Q&A - Technology, job replacement, and class disparity
• 26:40 Q&A - On ensuring accuracy with generative AI
• 29:04 Q&A - Ethical decisions for tech developers
• 32:52 Q&A - On developing georgefox.chat
• 36:34 Testing out the chat bot in community
• 55:51 Closing and outro