Event Details
Friday Feast : Outsourcing the Mind? Confucian and Christian Reflections on Artificial Intelligence
Date: 18 September, 2026
Time: 10:45-12:30
Venue: LTS Chapel
Speaker: Dr Andrew HUNG (Senior Lecturer, PolyU CPCE)
Registration: https://forms.gle/77cHeDjPGXnxb8159
Artificial intelligence (AI) is penetrating our daily lives at an unprecedented speed. From text, image, and video generation to education, the workplace, social companionship, industrial production, and even military decision-making-AI not only brings a revolution in efficiency, but is also reshaping our understanding of "reality," "relationships," "professional capacity," and "responsibility."
Lecture Highlights
Time: 10:45-12:30
Venue: LTS Chapel
Speaker: Dr Andrew HUNG (Senior Lecturer, PolyU CPCE)
Registration: https://forms.gle/77cHeDjPGXnxb8159
Artificial intelligence (AI) is penetrating our daily lives at an unprecedented speed. From text, image, and video generation to education, the workplace, social companionship, industrial production, and even military decision-making-AI not only brings a revolution in efficiency, but is also reshaping our understanding of "reality," "relationships," "professional capacity," and "responsibility."
Lecture Highlights
- Mechanism Analysis & Ethical Challenges: Through everyday cases, news events, and research findings, this session will provide an accessible overview of the basic operations of generative AI and deep learning. It will also explore contemporary issues such as deepfakes and algorithmic bias in decision-making.
- Reflections on Humanity, Emotion, and "Outsourcing": As AI becomes capable of serving as friends, virtual companions, or even enabling "digital resurrection," will machines that offer unceasing compliance and companionship cause people to fall into one-sided emotional dependencies-thereby weakening self-reflection and authentic community connections? Will human thinking, creativity, learning, and character development gradually atrophy due to over-outsourcing?
- Faith & Ethical Responses to the Era: Integrating Confucian ethics and Christian faith, this lecture examines perspectives on truth, freedom, integrity, human dignity, and stewardship. It aims to guide the audience in maintaining discernment within a rapidly changing digital society, cultivating relationships and character that edify others, and discerning God's calling for both individuals and the Church.