Dates/Times: Tuesdays, September 24 & October 1, 8, & 15 (6:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST)
Location: Online
Instructor: Isaac Sharp
Registration Deadline: September 10, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence is booming. For non-specialists, the dizzying array of technological developments, computational processes, and philosophical problems associated with AI can also be incredibly confusing. In this course, we will demystify some of the current hype to begin uncovering some of the most pressing social-ethical implications associated with the various technologies proliferating under the umbrella of Artificial Intelligence.” Note: This course is an “online-by-design” course which includes both live class sessions and required assignments/activities outside of class.

Isaac Sharp

Isaac B. Sharp is Visiting Assistant Professor and Faculty Director of Online and Part-time Programs at Union Theological Seminary. After graduating with his Ph.D. in 2019, he has spent the last several years helping Union develop and launch the Advanced Certificate programs and the new Master of Arts in Social Justice, Union’s first fully online degree. Dr. Sharp is the author of The Other Evangelicals: A Story of Liberal, Black, Progressive, Feminist, and Gay Christians—and the Movement That Pushed Them Out (Eerdmans 2023), which develops a new, more inclusive history of twentieth-century evangelicalism by bringing to light the stories of those who were defined out of the category. His other major publications include Christian Ethics in Conversation: A Festschrift in Honor of Donald W. Shriver Jr., 13thPresident of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (Wipf & Stock, 2020), and Evangelical Ethics: A Reader in the Library of Theological Ethics series (Westminster John Knox, 2015). An in-demand interview subject and podcast guest, Dr. Sharp’s current research areas include the evolution of contemporary American evangelical identity, the social and political history of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the ethics of Artificial Intelligence.