Geoff Keeling's SCRN seminar is now available on YT/podcast.
"Emerging Questions in AI Welfare" explored AI consciousness, the precautionary principle, and democratic consensus.
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/62Kx...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=y749...
Final chance to register for today’s seminar:
“Emerging Questions in AI Welfare”.
Dr Geoff Keeling (Google Research), on whether AI systems could ever be subjects of welfare
Tue 31 March 2026 | 8pm Melbourne / 10am London
More info + Zoom registration: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
SCRN Zoom seminar this coming week:
Geoff Keeling (Staff Research Scientist, Google)
"Emerging Questions in AI Welfare"
Tu 31 March, 8pm Melbourne time; 10am London; other time conversions: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/c...
Register here:
monash.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
AI is forcing some of the deepest human questions to the centre of our cultural conversation:
What is a person?
What is truth?
What is work for?
In June–July I’m teaching a 5-week online course “Artificial Intelligence and Christian Wisdom.”
Details & registration: events.nd.edu.au/artificial-i...
Time and date for final SCRN AI seminar now set:
Robert Sparrow, Monash University,
"Slaves to the algorithms? Algocracy and republican liberty"
Monday 4 May 2026, 8pm Melbourne time. 11am London.
More info: www.monash.edu/arts/languag...
Register: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Pleased to share Peter Johnson’s new book on Michel Serres’ ecological thought.
For readers interested in Serres, ecological jurisprudence, political ecology, technology, and hope, this looks like a very welcome and accessible introduction. www.amazon.com/Philosophy-T...
To accompany the launch of my new book... an article on the Fifteen Eighty Four blog:
"The State of Nature: Historical Fable, Haunting Future" cambridgeblog.org/2026/02/the-...
Book launch details: bsky.app/profile/drch...
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12 May: Laure Gillot-Assayag — Rethinking the Social Contract: A Ricœurian Perspective. Institutions, justice, and the “political paradox.” Register: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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27 Apr: Simon Angus (Monash): Inclusive Economics. AI as institutional infrastructure shaping participation in economic life. Register: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Robert Sparrow (Monash): Slaves to the Algorithms? Algocracy & Republican Liberty. Does AI decision-making in government threaten political liberty? Date/time tbc. Details: www.monash.edu/arts/languag...
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24 Mar: Geoff Keeling (Google Research): Emerging Questions in AI Welfare. Could AI ever be a welfare subject? What would we owe digital minds? Register: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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The increasing prominence of AI and LLMs in society raises profound and pressing questions for the social contract and ideas of the common good.
The SCRN has an upcoming Zoom seminar series exploring these questions.
Details + free registration links: www.monash.edu/arts/languag...
What a frustration that they ended up in the spam folder! I hope you enjoy the next meeting.
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If you’re curious about how our origin stories shape our sense of who we are and where we’re going, please come along (in person or online).
#PoliticalTheory #IntellectualHistory
5/6
SYDNEY (with online option) — Thu 9 April, 1–4pm
University of Notre Dame Australia + Microsoft Teams
Author-meets-critics with Dr Sandra Field, Prof Peter Harrison & @jessicawhyte.bsky.social .
Register: events.nd.edu.au/state-of-nat...
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MELBOURNE — Fri 20 March, 3–4pm
University of Melbourne (Parkville), 407 Babel Building
Talk: Rousseau + Foucault on the state of nature as a “regime of truth”.
Details: australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/2026/02/16/m...
3/6
If you’d like to explore how early modern stories still echo in contemporary debates, I’d love to invite you to one of two events connected to my new book "The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity": www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
2/6
Unpacking those stories gives us a powerful lens for understanding the complex forces shaping our contemporary political and cultural landscapes.
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Two upcoming book launch events...
The stories we tell about human origins quietly shape our assumptions and intuitions about fundamental values like freedom and equality, and about how we relate to each other and to the natural world.
It was so lovely to talk to you too, Ben! And all the very best for the exhibition about the book at Lancaster University Library.
Oh no! I'm sorry. Petra has been quite responsive to mine. Have you still not heard back?
I built this system to help my university students master their vocabulary lists more effectively. It's free to anyone. It combines a spaced repetition algorithm with AI-assisted formative translation feedback.
Supports many languages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnh...
#AcademicSky #OpenAccess
Calling Michel Serres scholars:
Just heard about a new reading group "a small, friendly bunch", sharing an interest in theology and philosophy, who are getting together on Zoom (12th of Feb at 3 pm CET) to discuss The Natural Contract.
email Petra at ctec@ehs.se to get a Zoom link
Had a wonderful time recently with the faculty and students at Singapore Bible College!
Just posted the videos of 3 talks:
1️⃣Diagnosing Westernisation through Luke 15
2️⃣Subversive Fulfilment: Bridging the Divide
3️⃣Incarnation: The View from Somewhere
www.thinkingthroughthebible.com/video-beyond...
If you happen to be in Singapore on January 12,
or want to hop online,
I'll be giving an address entitled
"Beyond Western Defaults: Diagonalizing Scripture and Culture"
Singapore Bible College.
2-4pm.
English with Chinese Translation
Register: www.sbc.edu.sg/beyond-weste...
Video of my Stob lecture at @calvinseminary last week:
"The Human Remains: Fragility and Fulfilment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM1oEhA8ou8
Biblical Critical Theory is featured in Amazon’s Black Friday sale this year.
amzn.to/4oUrtSY
It is currently 55% off but pricing may fluctuate during the sale, which ends 12/2.
Whether you're an AI boomer, doomer or scoffer, we need to work out the right questions to ask about genAI while it's still in its current horseless carriage phase.
Last week I joined a team of AI industry experts, researchers and entrepreneurs in Seoul to try and figure it out.
aiandfaith.org
