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December 22, 2024

AI: A World Without Work

Rabbi Jonathan Ziring

Rabbi Jonathan Ziring

Rabbi Jonathan Ziring is a Ram and the Educational Coordinator at Yeshivat Migdal HaTorah. Rabbi Ziring received semichah from the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University. He also received an MA in Jewish Philosophy from Bernard Revel Graduate School and a BA from the Honors Program at the Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University.

Rabbi Ziring studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion and continued his learning there as a member of the Kollel Gavoah. He was also a fellow at the Tikvah Fund and Center for Modern Torah Leadership’s Summer Beit Midrash. Rabbi Ziring has previously served as Sgan Rosh Kollel of the Yeshiva University Torah miTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov and as the Rabbinic Assistant of BAYT in Toronto. He has taught in many contexts in the US, Canada and Israel, focusing particularly on the Halakhic Process.

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Many new technologies have brought with them the fear that work would become irrelevant. Though each time this has proved untrue, we must prepare (theologically and psychologically) for the possibility that it will one day be the case. As AI raises these concerns again, we must ask several questions: Is there a moral problem with developing or utilizing technologies that may put many out of work? If they are out of work, how must we care for them? And if work becomes all but irrelevant, how can we live meaningful lives?

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