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A panel discussion on AI, ethics, and experience featuring Roshi Joan Halifax and other experts.

In Part 10 of the Varela Contemplative Science Retreat, Roshi Joan Halifax, John Dunne, Molly Crockett, and Adam Frank gather as a panel to open questions on AI before circling back through the retreat’s full arc. The AI discussion ranges widely: LLM “personas” and sycophancy, the ethics of a technology built without consent (likened to asbestos — useful, but harmful in ways not yet fully known)… Source

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Host: Roshi Joan Halifax

Guests: John Dunne, Molly Crockett, Adam Frank

Topics covered

• AI
• ethics
• technology
• contemplative science
• panel discussion

Keywords

• AI
• ethics
• technology
• contemplative science
• panel discussion
• Roshi Joan Halifax
• John Dunne
• Molly Crockett
• Adam Frank

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Organizations: Varela Contemplative Science Retreat

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