id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-arl-org-479 Sylvester Johnson on Humanism in Our Technological Age - Association of Research Libraries .html text/html 2622 267 52 Sylvester Johnson on Humanism in Our Technological Age Association of Research Libraries 299 on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), Association of Research Libraries (ARL) executive director Mary Lee Kennedy talked with author Sylvester Johnson, founding director of the Center for Humanities and assistant vice provost for the humanities at Virginia Tech. As we focus on advancing the interests of human thriving, we must forge new opportunities for humanists to lead a society that is increasingly technological and that is being reshaped by innovation. So, I think you can summarize the new challenge this way: Technology is becoming the essential means to shaping and governing human society at almost every level. Major philanthropists are driving a new vision for humanities leadership of a technological society. Kennedy: What would you ask of the research library community in securing the "very future of humanity in a technological age"? ./cache/www-arl-org-479.html ./txt/www-arl-org-479.txt