Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

I'm a professor at the psychology department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

She's a current fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, a past fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute, and co-editor of the recent book, Empathy and AI, Challenges, Advances, and Ethical Considerations.

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Greg Epstein.

Elethra is an associate professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University with a joint appointment in the School of Law and the Cowrie College of Computer Sciences.

She's a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard and an affiliated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.

She holds an SJD and LLM from Harvard Law School and an LLB from University College London.

And before entering academia, she practiced antitrust and intellectual property law at Allen & Overy in London and Brussels.

I'm the author of the audiobook, Love at First Prompt, AI and the Future of Intimacy.

And I'm a Harvard University Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society affiliate.

And when I think about abandoning the internet, my first thought is that I actually do not want to abandon it.

But I do kind of want to abandon this version of it.

She's a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research.

a faculty affiliate at berkman klein and also a faculty at indiana university and it's really relevant to today's conversation she's also you know leading the ethics review board at microsoft which is the only federally registered ethics review board of his kind which i'll definitely ask more question about it i

think it's um yeah thank you appreciate

All right, I'll just try to speak louder.

I'm DZ Kalman.

I'm a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University.

So what might history have to teach us about the present-day conversation around AI and religion?

I'm glad that you're starting with history because in the world of technology, technology has a tendency to erase its own past.

And you can imagine using some kind of certification as a way to hand people back some level of control over the kinds of technologies or the kinds of AIs or the particular models that they use and to be able to make at least very crude ethical choices around those technologies.

You know, before we wrap up here, you've given me so much food for thought, I'm just going to sit here and nod.

Before we wrap up here, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention we're both at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center.

You're working on a book.

She knows what she's talking about.

Dr. Chowdhury is a CEO and co-founder of Humane Intelligence, and she's also the responsible AI fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

She believes we should not fear AI.

She also thinks it's important to create guardrails for this tech.

All right, Mara, introduce yourself quickly.

Hi, my name is Mara Boldes, and I am a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center in Internet and Society at Harvard.

And I am co-host of this most amazing podcast and founder of First Prompt, which is an inclusive AI adoption lab.

And who are you, Logan? I am Logan Currie.

So I wanted to interject one thing, interject into myself one thing, where my mind was recently changed on this very topic.

So there is a woman, I think her name is Sabria.

She's in my fellowship at Berkman Klein.

I've invited her to join the pod.

And I want to just introduce them, and then we'll get right into the conversation.

To my immediate left is Christopher Bavitz, who is the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, the managing director of the law school's Cyber Law Clinic, which is based in the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, and he's also the faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center.

And to his left is Christina.

So you have a Chris, a Christopher, and a Christina.

A chatbot, on the other hand, is always there, it's always interested, it never really asks anything of you.

So what happens when a relationship with AI starts to feel a whole lot better than going out there and dating or maybe even staying in your marriage? Amelia Miller is a human-AI relationship coach and a fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

We're going to talk to her about where we are headed.

Welcome, Amelia.

Thank you, Amelia.

Thanks so much for having me.

That was health reporter Leslie McClurg in conversation with Amelia Miller, a human AI relationship coach and fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center.

It was engineered by Jim Bennett and produced by Susie Britton and Emiko Oda.