Food For Thought: Is AI Evil? Why We Should Resist AI in Higher Education and Daily Life

Presented by John Sanbonmatsu

Associate Professor, HUA

Monday, April 28, 2025

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

Stratton Hall #201

Please register here by 4/21 

At a time when university administrators and faculty across the nation are rushing to remake higher education in the image of AI, Prof. Sanbonmatsu takes a contrarian view, warning that the automation of human thought and creativity not only imperils the ideals of a humanist education, but strengthens existing structures of power, violence, and oppression.  

BIO:  John Sanbonmatsu, Professor of Philosophy at WPI, is author of the book, The Postmodern Prince:  Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject (2004), editor of the book, Critical Theory and Animal Liberation (2011), and author of the new book, The Omnivore's Deception:  What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and the Nature of Moral Life (NYU Press, 2025).  His opinion writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Counterpunch, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Huffington Post, among other places.

Sponsored by the Morgan Teaching and Learning Center -  morgan-center@wpi.edu