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October 18, 2023 | Jacob Howland
About the author: Jacob Howland is McFarlin professor of philosophy (emeritus) at the University of Tulsa. His research focuses on ancient Greek philosophy, history, epic, and tragedy; the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud; Kierkegaard; and literary and philosophical responses to the Holocaust and Soviet totalitarianism.

Recent developments in artificial intelligence have led to much worry, and much speculation, about humanity’s future—a great deal of which is muddled or tedious. Considerably clearer is this unusual conversation between the scholar of classical philosophy Jacob Howland and the podcaster Jonathan Pageau, which ranges from Plato’s Phaedrus and Greek myths to the book of Revelation and John Milton, while spending much time with passages in Genesis and Exodus. (Video, 68 minutes.)

 

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