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A historic divinity school is offering the first doctoral degree in ‘AI and moral agency’
Shaw University Divinity School in Raleigh, North Carolina (Photo courtesy of Shaw Divinity School)
At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier and Baptist minister founded a school in Raleigh, North Carolina, to provide formerly enslaved people with religious literacy.
Now that same school—Shaw University—wants to provide literacy of a new kind: AI literacy.
Starting next year, Shaw’s divinity school plans to offer a new degree track: a Doctor of Education (or Ed.D) in Artificial Intelligence and Moral Agency.
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