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.