New Episode of Tent Talks

AI and the Good Life

In the newest episode of Tent Talks, Cody Turner sits down with Aiden Gilroy, a sophomore at the University of Notre Dame and one of his former students in Internet Ethics, for a deeply insightful conversation on AI, ethics, and human flourishing.

Aiden is a researcher with the New AI Project, a passionate advocate for digital privacy (founder of Simply Privacy), and a teaching assistant for Notre Dame’s flagship course God and the Good Life. He’s also a committed Christian thinker aiming to spread the Gospel in a world increasingly shaped by digital tools.

Topics they cover include:

• AI and cognitive offloading

• AI and virtue ethics

• The ethics of AI companions and digital sycophancy

• Transhumanism vs. Luddism

• The vision of Fully Automated Luxury Communism

• AlphaFold and AI’s scientific promise

• Regulating AI in a shifting moral landscape

• What it means to live “the good life” in a world shaped by algorithms and automation

🎧 Listen to the full episode here

This is a thoughtful, wide-ranging conversation with a young voice you’ll want to hear more from.