Noémi Kondorosi: I earned my MA degree in economics at the University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration of Budapest in 2000. For almost twenty years, I worked as a civil servant first in Budapest, than in Copenhagen. In 2024, I obtained a BA degree as a catechist - pastoral assistant from the Apor Vilmos Catholic College. I am currently studying MA Theology at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Author of three religious books and of theological studies.
Noémi Kondorosi
Speaker
Birds are known by their feathers - and people by their (virtual) friends - reflections on the human person in the age of AI
Speech
Since ancient times, humanity has sought answers through the sciences of philosophy and theology to questions about what it means to be human, what our purpose is, and what the meaning of our existence is. These eternal human questions have never been more pressing than in the age of AI, when machine intelligence has the potential to surpass that of humans.
But if machine intelligence can be our new colleague, advisor, therapist, friend, and companion - as programmed AI behavior suggests - then how does a human relationship offer more? Can our intelligence be exhaustively explained in terms of biological components, and thus a sufficiently complex machine intelligence might become its competitor, or does the soul, as an essential component of our humanity, represent an added value that cannot be modeled?
In my presentation, I will reflect on questions of human nature from the perspective of philosophy and Catholic theology.