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Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful tool humans have ever created — but what happens when our tools begin to shape us? Drawing on philosophy, history, and contemporary debates, J. Aaron Simmons (Furman University) and Micah Voraritskul (author of Human Is the New Vinyl) explore how AI challenges our understanding of creativity, wisdom, and the very meaning of being human. This lecture invites us to think critically, and hopefully, about our human future in an age of machines.

J. Aaron Simmons is Professor of Philosophy at Furman University and the author of numerous books, including Camping with Kierkegaard: Faithfulness as a Way of Life. He lectures widely on philosophy, religion, and contemporary culture, and is a former president of the Søren Kierkegaard Society of North America.

Micah Voraritskul is the author of Human Is the New Vinyl: Why Human Creativity Still Wins in the AI Revolution and founder of VerifiedHuman™, a movement championing human-made work in an AI-saturated world. He writes and speaks at the intersection of creativity, technology, and human identity.