Monday, March 30, 2026
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. (GMT+03:00) Doha
Much of the current debate around AI centers rightly on its implications for the economy and for job displacement in particular. At a more fundamental level, though, the explosion of human-machine interaction raises fundamental questions about what it means to be human. What remains–and will remain–distinctive about human intelligence, creativity, and community in an AI-infused world? Does AI pose an existential threat, and if so, how?
Participants
Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid is an acclaimed British Pakistani author known for creative fiction and commentary that address contemporary global issues. His recent novels include The Last White Man (2022) and Exit West (2017), which received the 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. His book The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and later adapted into a successful film. Hamid’s engagement with themes of political turmoil, cultural displacement, and shifting individual and collective identities informs his influential essays on contemporary affairs in leading outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Paris Review.
Kohei Saito
Kohei Saito is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Tokyo and a leading contemporary Marxist thinker. His most recent book, Capital in the Anthropocene (2020), has sold more than half a million copies in Japan and was published in English as Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto in January 2024. Saito’s previous book, Karl Marx's Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (2017), which creatively explored the ecological dimension of Marx’s thought and its contemporary relevance, won the Deutscher Memorial Prize.
Thomas Banchoff
Thomas Banchoff is vice president for global engagement at Georgetown University, where he also serves as professor in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service and director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, which he founded in 2006. His books include The Jesuits and Globalization: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Challenges (2016, with Jose Casanova); Embryo Politics: Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies (2011); Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics (2008); and Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism (2007). His essays have appeared in Commonweal, The Tablet, The Washington Post, and other outlets.
Anjana Jacob
Anjana Jacob is assistant teaching professor of philosophy at Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q). She currently focuses on how contemporary philosophical conceptions of consciousness have been limited by technical concepts in modern logic. Her research spans the philosophy of the mind, philosophical logic, and Kantian ethics. She is interested in expanding the philosophy curriculum to include philosophers and writings from non-Western traditions. At GU-Q, Jacob teaches a variety of courses from logic to philosophy of gender. She received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh; prior to that she studied at the University of Cambridge and the University of Delhi.
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