AI and the Common Good: What's to Be Done?
05/10/26 12:28
Friday, October 23 |12:00-2:00 PM
Loop Campus and Zoom
Free and open to all. Box lunches and refreshments provided for in-person participants.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping work, public life, and how decisions get made. A growing chorus, from Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica humanitas to AI researchers calling for a slowdown in development, is asking whether AI is serving the common good and how it can be aligned with human values. The DePaul AI Institute invites you to a lunchtime roundtable to begin that conversation.
Invited speakers from across the university will open with brief reflections, and then the discussion opens to everyone in the room and on Zoom. We will explore three broad themes:
This is the first event in a series, and we hope you will help shape where it goes next. Details and the full program will be posted at https://blogs.depaul.edu/ai-institute/ai-and-the-common-good-whats-to-be-done/
Loop Campus and Zoom
Free and open to all. Box lunches and refreshments provided for in-person participants.
Artificial intelligence is reshaping work, public life, and how decisions get made. A growing chorus, from Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica humanitas to AI researchers calling for a slowdown in development, is asking whether AI is serving the common good and how it can be aligned with human values. The DePaul AI Institute invites you to a lunchtime roundtable to begin that conversation.
Invited speakers from across the university will open with brief reflections, and then the discussion opens to everyone in the room and on Zoom. We will explore three broad themes:
- Concentration of power: A few companies control the computing power, models, data, and platforms behind advanced AI. What does that mean for work, public life, and who benefits?
- Alignment with human values: Whose values, and decided how? What would responsible AI development require?
- What's to be done: Which proposed remedies could work, who can act, and what role should a university play?
This is the first event in a series, and we hope you will help shape where it goes next. Details and the full program will be posted at https://blogs.depaul.edu/ai-institute/ai-and-the-common-good-whats-to-be-done/
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