What-a-bot-us?- An Update on AI, Ethics, and the Idea of Robotic Counselors

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Course description:

What-a-bot-us?” An Update on AI, Ethics, and the Idea of Robotic Counselors | July 27 and 29 | 8:30 to 11:45 AM | 6 Contact Hours

After “conversing” with the Google AI chatbot, LaMDA,  an engineer recently claimed that the entity may, in fact, be sentient. This claim raised a storm of commentary in the media and literature. And it raises the question: How will such claims arising from the evolution of Artificial Intelligence impact ethical practice in the helping professions? Language entities like LaMDA, machines that can diagnose and even treat with more accuracy than a “human,” robots that flip burgers in fast-food restaurants, and bots that, as some believe, will be able to demonstrate empathy – how will all of this impact us in our service professions?

This two-part workshop will follow up on the question, “What-A-Bot Us?  Significant underlying questions that shape evolving theory are, “What do we mean by Intelligence?” and “What do we mean by Artificial?”  But most importantly for us in the helping professions, “What does it mean to be a Person?” and “Who is driving the bus?”

In part one, we will discuss the evolution of digital ethics in our profession and review traditional ethical principles as they apply to this issue.  We will also examine assumptions that we take for granted as well as our relationship with technology. In part two, we will address the impact of a post-humanistic philosophy that drives the development of technology and that may unwittingly be driving our understanding of personhood and the therapeutic relationship.  Bring your thinking caps as we take a peek at this bewildering new world.