The Challenge of AI Technology for Higher Education
For this lecture, I will focus on AI’s implications for higher education, a context most of us, presumably, share, and devote particular attention to how this intersects with the relationship between religion and science, which is the focus of the center.
I have chosen eight points for this presentation that have emerged as especially important in my teaching and research.
While higher education often prioritizes text, I will argue that AI’s multimodal capabilities—combining text, images, video, and sound— in conjunction with the rise of AI agents are crucial and potentially transformative for education and research.
1. From Instrument to System
2. From Text to Multimodality
3. From Trust to Control
4. From Chatbots to Agents
5. From Single Agents to Multi-Agent Systems
6. From Code to Embodiment: The Rise of Robots
7. From Computer Programs to Artificial Persons
8. From Religion to Machine Spirituality
I have chosen eight points for this presentation that have emerged as especially important in my teaching and research.
While higher education often prioritizes text, I will argue that AI’s multimodal capabilities—combining text, images, video, and sound— in conjunction with the rise of AI agents are crucial and potentially transformative for education and research.
1. From Instrument to System
2. From Text to Multimodality
3. From Trust to Control
4. From Chatbots to Agents
5. From Single Agents to Multi-Agent Systems
6. From Code to Embodiment: The Rise of Robots
7. From Computer Programs to Artificial Persons
8. From Religion to Machine Spirituality
Publisert i Guest lecture, 2025
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