Shows
Pondering AIWhat AI Values with Jordan Loewen-ColónJordan Loewen-Colón values clarity regarding the practical impacts, philosophical implications and work required for AI to serve the public good, not just private gain.Jordan and Kimberly discuss value alignment as an engineering or social problem; understanding ourselves as data personas; the limits of personalization; the perception of agency; how AI shapes our language and desires; flattening of culture and personality; localized models and vernacularization; what LLMs value (so to speak); how tools from calculators to LLMs embody values; whether AI accountability is on anyone’s radar; failures of policy and regulation; positive signals; getting educated and...
2025-10-2951 min
RemAIning HumanAI Ethics, explained
Knowing your unique values is essential for leading a fulfilling life. Our internal values can be way-finders — sign-posts that help us to build healthy relationships, undertake projects that align to our purposes, and be the change we want to witness in the world.
But knowing our values is becoming increasingly important in relation to another aspect of our shared human experience — the building and using of powerful technologies, such as artificial intelligence.
In this episode of the RemAIning Human podcast, I’m joined by ethics consultant Jordan Loewen-Colón, who is a professor of AI Ethics and Pol...
2024-10-171h 03
The Religious Studies ProjectRealities (Altered & Virtual) | Discourse! November 2022Join host Sidney Castillo and guests Jordan Loewen-Colón and Sharday Mosurinjohn for the bumper final Discourse! episode of 2022!
2022-12-191h 01
The Religious Studies ProjectRealities (Altered & Virtual) | Discourse! November 2022
Sidney Castillo is your host for the bumper final Discourse! episode of 2022! Join Sidney, Sharday Mosurinjohn, and Jordan Loewen-Colón to discuss some recent stories about religion and different altered realities. Sidney describes the use of ayahuasca among Peruvian indigenous peoples, and how this relates to animism–and COP27. Sharday Mosurinjohn talks about the founding of a new entheogenic church, and the prominence of religious language within the broader “psychedelic renaissance”. And finally, Jordan Loewen-Colón tells us about the use of VR to induce altered states of consciousness, which has earned the name “technodelics”.
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2022-12-191h 01