Historic divinity school is offering the first doctoral degree in 'AI and Moral Agency'
At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier and Baptist minister founded a school in Raleigh, North Carolina, to provide formerly enslaved people with religious literacy. Now that same school - Shaw University - wants to provide literacy of a new kind: AI literacy. Starting next year, Shaw’s divinity school plans to offer a new degree track: a Doctor of Education (or Ed.D) in Artificial Intelligence and Moral Agency.
- ▪At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier and Baptist minister founded a school in Raleigh, North Carolina, to provide formerly enslaved people with religious literacy.
- ▪Now that same school - Shaw University - wants to provide literacy of a new kind: AI literacy.
- ▪Starting next year, Shaw’s divinity school plans to offer a new degree track: a Doctor of Education (or Ed.D) in Artificial Intelligence and Moral Agency.
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At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier and Baptist minister founded a school in Raleigh, North Carolina, to provide formerly enslaved people with religious literacy. Now that same school - Shaw University - wants to provide literacy of a new kind: AI literacy. Starting next year, Shaw’s divinity school plans to offer a new degree track: a Doctor of Education (or Ed.D) in Artificial Intelligence and Moral Agency. As AI spreads and performs more and more tasks traditionally done by humans, the divinity school wants to get ahead of the curve and probe its moral implications. “We say Shaw was created to provide leadership in building literacy,” said Mark Harden, dean of Shaw University Divinity School.
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