'What is Knowing?' Divine, Human and Artificial Intelligence
Cephas Event
CEPHAS seeks to contribute to the renewal of philosophy and Christian theology in the UK through close study, in particular, of St Thomas Aquinas.CEPHAS 2024 will be an opportunity to engage in ‘the most important conversation we should be having’ about ‘the future of AI’.We will reflect in a profound way on the nature of knowing, and the implications of Artificial Intelligence for the present and the future.
We will explore together Aquinas’s account of divine, angelic, and human knowing, as well as the nature, and uses (both actual and potential), of different forms of artificial knowing and intelligence.
There will be philosophy and theology workshops, evening talks with good wine, and plenty of time for discussion. There will also be the opportunity to participate in a daily liturgy, with further space for prayer and reflection. To book Click here
This, of course, sounds very odd in English, because it’s not our natural word order, but it’s a different matter in other languages: in Latin, for instance – Pater Noster and in German Vater Unser. 
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