{"id":21344,"date":"2023-10-12T11:50:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/?p=21344"},"modified":"2024-03-22T14:40:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T18:40:19","slug":"director-floyd-interviewed-on-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/2023\/10\/12\/director-floyd-interviewed-on-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Floyd Interviewed on Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/humanities\/files\/2023\/10\/ai-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/10\/ai-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/10\/ai-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/10\/ai-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/10\/ai-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/10\/ai.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/10\/ai-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/files\/2023\/10\/ai-800x600.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Bostonia <\/em>released an interview with Center Director Juliet Floyd, exploring why it may be time to slow the development of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wp-block-editorial-q-and-a-content\">&#8220;AI can\u2019t solve all our moral problems with algorithms, and it creates new problems. I strongly support further, intensive research into AI generally; in fact, I believe we need it desperately, and in nearly every field,&#8221; said Floyd.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The humanities are becoming more and more foundational in our world, because the capacity to pursue questions we all ask, each from our own individual perspective, is a prerequisite for guiding our journey to a better place. We cannot allow ourselves to become creatures of nudging technology alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article about why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/its-time-to-pause-artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>It&#8217;s Time to Push Pause on Artificial Intelligence<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bostonia released an interview with Center Director Juliet Floyd, exploring why it may be time to slow the development of artificial intelligence. &#8220;AI can\u2019t solve all our moral problems with algorithms, and it creates new problems. I strongly support further, intensive research into AI generally; in fact, I believe we need it desperately, and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20263,"featured_media":21348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[391,405,399],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21344"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21375,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21344\/revisions\/21375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}