Infinite Corridor

The promise of AI seems unlimited - but what about the downside? Last March, the Octet Collaborative hosted an interdisciplinary colloquium devoted to the question of AI & Human Formation, which became the basis for this special season of the Infinite Corridor podcast.  Over the course of a rich day of interdisciplinary conversation, we considered what is formed by AI and how human formation t...

AI’s potential seems limitless - and not only according to those building it and profiting from the current AI boom. Curing disease, solving the climate crisis, ending the epidemic of loneliness: there seems no end to the intractable problems that suddenly seem to maybe, just maybe, be solvable with the help of AI. But what sort of people will we become in the process? Are problem-solving and huma...

What will we become with AI? It’s a question easily lost alongside fevered speculation about what AI will do to the economy, politics, national security — and yet it may be the most important question of all. How will AI shape us, as we build it and use it? Last March, the Octet Collaborative hosted an interdisciplinary colloquium devoted to this question, which became the basis for this special s...

Alan Love ‘95, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science, talks about how his personal journey of faith and career — traversing an undergrad biology degree at MIT and hospitality work in campus ministry — dovetails perfectly with his interest in the philosophy of science, suggesting that scientists need to walk across...

Computer Scientist Nathan Matias, PhD ‘17, a professor at Cornell University and founder of the Citizens and Technology Lab, talks about the ethics and implications for equity and justice of machine learning — including how they take a crash collision into his own family history as a Guatemalan American and his ongoing formation as a Christian disciple.

Prolific innovator Deborah Chung, PhD '77 and currently professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Buffalo, shares the unexpected ways that her faith in God has animated the concrete details of her daily life as a materials scientist… even when she is thinking about literal concrete.

Rocklyn and Eva Clarke, Pastors at Life Church Boston who met as MIT students, discuss their journey to faith at MIT, their experience as African American students on campus, and the many projects they're currently working on, including MITCAN (MIT Christian Alumni Network).

Old Testament professor Jack Collins ‘76, SM ‘78 discusses the relationship between faith & science - both for a general pursuit of truth, and in his own career in engineering and the study of biblical language.

A conversation about the Brooklyn Bridge, sustainable forestry, and how the creation mandate connects humans to the natural world with designer, architect, and MIT alum Scott Francisco, SM ‘05.

An MIT scientist describes her journey to faith and her story of risk-taking in life and the lab.

Cullen Buie, associate professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Laboratory for Energy and Microsystems Innovation at MIT, and co-founder of Kytopen, talks about how God directed his life into a career in engineering, the huge variety of problems that career has enabled him to address, and how he sets priorities in a life with many callings.

Deborah Haarsma, President of BioLogos and MIT Alumni, kicks off the Infinite Corridor podcast by sharing how her work as an astrophysicist encourages her faith in God, and gives her a passion to share her wonder and awe at the universe with scientists and with the church.