AI as the new Oil' or Mutton dressed as Lamb?
November 6, 2026 (1:00 pm)
Location: Beveridge Arts Centre, Room 325
Social and Political Thought Series Speaker: Dr. Teresa Heffernan
AI agency is not only a distraction from real concerns, but a psychological displacement, an unconscious defense that substitutes a new object, autonomous machines, in place of one that cannot be acknowledged: responsibility for the environmental and societal damage.