Presentation
Revisiting the Meaning of the City and the Library
Virtuous AI?: Cultural Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtue, Graduate Theological Union’s Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences
(2023)
Abstract
We are living through an information revolution connected with automated information processing and artificial intelligence. Previous information revolutions, connected with information agencies and information artifacts, resulted in cities—described by Jacques Ellul in The Meaning of the City as artificial and autonomous systems—and libraries, which augment human intelligence through technological systems as well as related formative practices. The library remains an important institution and infrastructure for confronting challenges and opportunities associated with the latest form artificial agency, AI. Focusing on the history of the library, this paper explores the history of—and future possibilities for—the role of artificial agency in cultural development.
Disciplines
Publication Date
June 12, 2023
Location
Berkeley, Calif.
Citation Information
Michael J. Paulus. "Revisiting the Meaning of the City and the Library" Virtuous AI?: Cultural Evolution, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtue, Graduate Theological Union’s Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (2023) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_paulus/87/