SHABBAT READING
Building the Tabernacle in Your Mind: Dr. Amy Cooper Robertson, TheTorah.com, Mar. 12, 2024 — The description of mishkan (Tabernacle) in Exodus is often read as a set of instructions. At first blush, this reading fits the plot: as the story goes, these are the instructions our forebears received to build just such a structure, and build it they did. But as many readers over the generations have noticed, once you get into the details, this text is difficult to use as instructions.
What Artificial Intelligence Has in Store for Judaism: Moshe Koppel, Mosaic Magazine, Mar. 4, 2024
Thinking about AI: Rabbi Daniel Nevins, Jewish Standard, June 22, 2023
Torah is the anti-ChatGPT. But We Can Embrace Artificial Intelligence Without Losing Our Soul.: Rabbi Samantha Natov, JTA, Apr. 19, 2023
The Israeli and Jewish Contributions to Artificial Intelligence: Meir Valman, Jerusalem Post, July 29, 2024
FOR FURTHER REFERENCE:
WATCH: Moshe Koppel: Artificial Intelligence and Torah [Prayer & Humanity 3/5]: YouTube, June 2023 — In this episode of the 18Forty Podcast, we talk to returning guest Moshe Koppel—a computer scientist and Talmud scholar—about Torah and its intersection with artificial intelligence.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It: David J. Wolpe, Jewish Review of Books, Summer 2023 — In my final year at the Jewish Theological Seminary, we were assigned to take “Senior Homiletics.”
A Jewish Institution Asks: What Does Judaism Have To Say About AI?: Jeff Stub, JTA, Mar. 4, 2024 — Will the advent of artificial intelligence usher in a new age of prosperity and efficiency, or will it hasten the downfall of civilization as we know it?
What’s Next for AI in 2024: Melissa Heikkilä and Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review, Jan. 4, 2024 — This time last year we did something reckless. In an industry where nothing stands still, we had a go at predicting the future.