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Molly Crockett discusses the implications of teaching Buddhist ethics to machines in the context of AI development.

In Part 7 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, Molly Crockett turns to a question with real stakes in the race of AI development: Can Buddhist ethics be taught to a machine? Drawing on Francisco Varela’s concept of ethical know-how, she distinguishes “knowledge that” — facts and principles a system can represent — from “knowledge how,” the embodied wisdom that “requires embodied experience… Source

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Host: Joan Halifax

Guest: Molly Crockett

Topics covered

• Buddhist ethics
• AI development
• ethical know-how
• contemplative science
• embodied experience

Keywords

• Buddhism
• AI ethics
• contemplative science
• Francisco Varela
• knowledge that
• knowledge how

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