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He's an author of the award-winning book, Historically Black Phrases, from I Ain't One of Your Little Friends to Who All Gon' Be There.

a creator of a game, and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.

That's just a few of the credentials.

Good morning, Jared Hill.

Who gets to shape the future of AI? How should it be used? And how can we benefit from it without losing something important about the way people learn, think, and relate to one another? I'm Jonathan Beasley, and this is the Harvard Religion Beat.

Today, I'm joined by David Lamberth, professor of philosophy and theology at Harvard Divinity School.

His scholarship explores religious experience, questions about the mind, and how people make meaning.

We spoke about the concerns driving the public debate over AI, what these systems can and can't do, and how people and organizations can make more thoughtful decisions about using them.

So it's this great

synthetic power of conceptual content but it lacks any of the embodied or affective dimension that's really constitutive of human experience, whether individually or certainly in relation to other people.

You're listening to the Harvard Religion Beat from Harvard Divinity School.

My guest today is HDS Professor David Lamberth.

Discovering the work of today's guest had so much to do with my reconnection to our sacred texts.

Vanessa Zoltan earned her master's degree at Harvard Divinity School, where she now teaches courses on chaplaincy.

She's the author of Praying with Jane Eyre, and together with Caspar Turkyle, who joined us at Restore this year, she co-created the wildly popular podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text.

Vanessa approaches spirituality from a secular Jewish perspective, and her warm, witty, down-to-earth nature has drawn millions of listeners to Lectio Divina, the ancient practice of sacred reading.

So we've secularized it to believe that you can learn about yourself and potentially be called to an action by reading something more and more closely.

And so and we've broken it down into four steps.

I teach a class at Harvard Divinity School on chaplaincy for non-denominational people.

And I teach Lectio Divina.

They, on the surface, couldn't have been more different.

Emerson was from a highly educated family, multi-generations of clergy, born and raised in Boston, went to Harvard, went to Harvard Divinity School.

Alcott was also from an old family, but they were farmers.

He was barely educated.

the Nation of Islam.

And then also later he went to Harvard Divinity.

But he was a huge, he's one of the people who inspired Russell Simmons and Diddy to get into politics.

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Experts offer a few possible explanations as to why young women may be leaving religion.

Gina Zerlo, senior researcher and lecturer in world Christianity at the Harvard Divinity School, says one reason could be that women are kind of fed up.

That was a quote.

Ryan Burge, a former pastor who is now a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, points out that this rise in young women's disaffiliation from religion emerged alongside the Me Too movement and the overturning of Roe v.