Ethics Center Book Club: The AI Mirror

The Ethics Center is hosting a book club on The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon Vallor. In this book, the award-winning philosopher who used to be Google’s AI ethicist suggests that the best way to think of AI is as a mirror, rather than a mind. When used responsibly, AI can reveal like a good mirror – finding patterns and magnifying data. But AI can also distort and deceive like a bad mirror – producing confident-sounding guesses based on thoughts we’ve already had, yet inviting us to think, mistakenly, that the image we see is other than a mere duplicate. 

Discussions will be led by Jon Milgrim, Faculty Specialist in the Department of Philosophy. Meetings will be at 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays March 18, March 25, and April 1 in 4550 Sangren Hall. Visitor parking in lots 68 and 69; no meter fees after 5 p.m. The author will be giving a virtual talk for WMU at 12 p.m. April 7. The first 10 sign-up receive a free book.