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What Does It Mean to be Human in the Age of AI?

What are the moral and philosophical challenges we face as AI advances and humans navigate aging, end-of-life care, and cognitive decline? “We’re at a turning point because for the first time in the history of either our planet or our species we are seeing the emergence of a nonhuman intelligence,” says Hastings Center President Vardit Ravitsky in conversation with Hastings Center Fellow Insoo Hyun of the Museum of Science in Boston in the latest episode of The Big Question. “So, what happens to being human if we are not the only rational entities on Earth or in the universe? Do we have to find a new way of explaining what makes us us?” The Big Question is a collaboration between The Hastings Center for Bioethics and the Museum of Science. Watch the episode.