Brylie Oxley, webmaster for Western Friend for over a decade, joins host Jon Stoll and a live audience for a conversation on new technologies, artificial intelligence, and spirituality. Brylie also shares about a new tool that he developed, georgefox.chat, a chat bot primed and eager to discuss Quakerism, George Fox, or any queries you may have.
You can access the chatbot here: georgefox.chat
You can read Brylie's article in Western Friend here.
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The "chapters" in this podcast:
0:00 – Introduction
01:33 – On the idea of Spiritual Technologies
04:36 – On weighing the positives and negatives of technology
07:03 – What is Artificial Intelligence?
09:25 – On technology and human connection?
14:08 – On balancing optimism and careful, critical thinking
16:30 – Can technology connect us to the divine?
22:48 – Q&A - Technology, job replacement, and class disparity
26:40 – Q&A - On ensuring accuracy with generative AI
29:04 – Q&A - Ethical decisions for tech developers
32:52 – Q&A - On developing georgefox.chat
36:34 – Testing out the chat bot in community
55:51 – Closing and outro