The Internet and the Torah
Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Algorithms and Social Media
THE CHALLENGE AND PROMISE
December 8 – 11, 2021
Wednesday Evening, December 8 – Opening Night ~ 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Panel I: Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence – A Dialogue
7:30 PM ~ Professor Nathan Katz (CYS College): Welcome (5 min)
7:40 PM ~ Professor Joseph Jacobson (MIT): What is Artificial Intelligence (35-40 min)
8:20 PM ~ Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar (CYS College): What is Intelligence (35-40 min)
9:00 PM ~ Discussion facilitated by Prof. Nathan Katz (30 min + Q&A)
Thursday Morning, December 9 ~ 10:00am – 12:00pm
Documentary: The Social Dilemma
Comments by Prof. Nathan Katz
Thursday Afternoon, December 9 ~ 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Panel II: How It All Works: The Internet, Big Data, Algorithms, Social Media
1:00 PM ~ DE Sam Lightstone: AI and Big Data: State of the Art Today and Challenges for Jewish Life Tomorrow (35 min + 10 min Q&A)
1:45 PM ~ Professor Henry Abramson (Touro): Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Wisdom: Postmodernism and the Digital Age (35 min + 10 min Q&A)
2:30 PM ~ Franklin Zemel, Esq. (Cyberprivacy Attorney): The Links Between OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) and Ransomware (35 min + 10 min Q&A)
3:15 PM ~ Rabbi Dov Schochet (CYS College): Privacy Through the Prism of Torah (35 min. + 10 min Q&A)
Thursday Night, December 9 ~ 7:30pm – 9:45pm
Panel III: New Dangers
7:30 PM ~ Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, MD (Shaare Zedek): The New Media and Neurological Impact (35 min + 10 min Q&A)
8:15 PM ~ Dr. Norman Goldwasser (Horizons): Trauma, Addiction, and Cyberbullying: The Perils of Social Media (35 min + 10 min Q&A)
9:00 PM ~ Rabbi Pinchas Taylor (Chabad-Plantation): The Internet’s Impact on our Dreams (35 min + 10 min Q&A)
Friday Night & Saturday, December 10 – 11, 2021
Shabbaton: Scholar in Residence – Rabbi Prof. Avraham Steinberg
Motzei Shabbos, Saturday Night, December 11 ~ 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Panel IV: The Promise
7:30 PM ~ Dr. Margarita Quihuis (Stanford Persuasion Inst.): Worshipping the God of Technology: How technology alone is not sufficient to create a safe and just world (35 min + 10 min Q&A)
8:15 PM ~ Rabbi Motti Seligson (Chabad.org): Using Technology for its Higher Purpose (35 min + 10 min Q&A)
9:00 PM ~ Dr. Menachem Feuer (Adaleg IT): Judaism in a Digital World: Philosophical, Mystical and Practical Approaches to the Future of Tech in the Jewish Community (35 min + 10 min Q&A)
9:45 PM ~ Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar (CYS College) & Professor Joseph Jacobson (MIT): Summary of the Conference (30 min)
10:15 PM ~ Professor Nathan Katz (CYS College): Closing Remarks (15 min)