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n the last few years, break-
throughs in Artificial 
Intelligence (AI) have 
received a great deal of atten-
tion in the media. There have 
been a wide range of thought-
ful (and sometimes alarmed) 
thought pieces about how these 
emergent technologies could 
negatively impact — if not 
fundamentally transform — 
white-collar jobs, education, the 
entertainment industry and so 
much more. 
It is not uncommon to turn 
on the news and see billion-
aires, authors, musicians and 
government officials weighing 
in about whether and how gov-
ernments could and should reg-
ulate these developments and 
how businesses and communi-
ties might respond to them. 
Less visible, but certainly not 
less important, there has been 
growing discussion of what 
resources religious traditions 
might have to offer as we navi-
gate this fraught topic. 
Scholar/inventor/artist David 
Zvi Kalman has been think-
ing and writing a lot about 
AI in the context of Judaism 
and Jewish thought in recent 
years. At 7 p.m. on Thursday, 
May 9, the Eastern Michigan 
University Center for Jewish 
Studies, in partnership with 
Temple Beth Emeth, will bring 
Kalman to southeast Michigan 
to deliver a talk at TBE titled, 
“What a religious response to 
AI should look like.
”
In this talk, Kalman will 

discuss the challenges religious 
groups face when it comes to 
artificial intelligence. While AI 
will certainly impact religious 
life and institutions, the public 
discourse around AI regulation 
is largely secular. Moreover, 
Kalman notes that religious 
groups often struggle to provide 
moral guidance on topics that 
are not decades or centuries old. 
Kalman will bring forward 
suggestions on how religious 
thought, particularly Jewish 
thought, can provide meaning-
ful guidance at this moment, 
and how religious communities 
should expect to be impacted 
by AI in turn.
Kalman received his Ph.D. 
in Jewish studies from the 
University of Pennsylvania in 
2019 and has been the senior 
research fellow at the Shalom 
Hartman Institute of North 
America. In addition to his 
scholarship, he has written arti-
cles for Slate, LA Times, JTA, 
Tablet, LARB and the Forward. 
This event is free and open 
to the public. For questions, 
contact jewish.studies@emich.
edu. 

EMU and Temple Beth Emeth to host 
David Zvi Kalman at May 9 event.

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