“Resistance to AI: Does it Matter?” presented by Dr. Amy Levy, Psy.D.
Date: Sunday, October 27th, 2024
Time: 1:30pm – 3:30pm EDT
Location: Zoom
2 CEU credits available
MSPP Member: Free
MITPP Matriculating Candidate: Free
Non MSPP Member: $50 per individual, $30 per student
RSVP by Thursday, October 24th, 2024
Description of Presentation
Dr. Levy will read a chapter from her soon to be released book, On Apprehending the new other: alien intelligence and the innovation drive. This chapter deals with the form change that many of us are undergoing, owing to AI-driven personal technology, from humans into ‘digital people’. The metamorphosis will be explored through theories of conscious, unconscious and cognitive mental life as well as via personal vignettes. Dr. Levy tracks a tendency throughout human history to use entertainment as a “container” for transformation of psychic experience, and argues that AI-driven digital technology has only enhanced the function of previous ‘entertainment containers’ in joining humanity together through shared states of consciousness. This chapter deals with the question of whether resistance to technology serves any useful function and offers thoughts on how it might.
Learning Objectives
After attending this presentation, participants will be able to:
● List two differences between ‘digital people’ and ‘humans’ as theorized by Dr. Levy.
● Explain how Bach’s (2008) concepts of ‘digital time’ and ‘analogue time’ may be applied to understanding the impact of AI-driven technology on the mind.
● Explain what is meant by the term ‘entertainment container’ and how the emergence of technology has changed the social impact of ‘entertainment containers’.
About the Presenter
Amy Levy, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst and forensic psychologist who trained in San Francisco and Los Angeles, California. She is co-chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s (APsA) Council on Artificial Intelligence (CAI). She has taught and lectured on the smart phone, Artificial Intelligence and psychoanalysis, psychological and cognitive assessment, forensic evaluations and courtroom testimony, and group therapy. Her publication topics include intergenerational transmission of trauma, adolescent Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the civil legal arena, and Bionian theory. Her private practice is in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she is faculty at the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas (PCC).
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