Post Humanism & Aleph Intelligence

with Graie Hagans

Wednesdays
July 22nd, July 29, August 5th
7-8:30pm ET
Zoom

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Join Graie Hagans (full bio below) and The Shalom Center for a three-part series exploring the consequences - good, bad, and expansive - of AI in a post-humanist and applied Jewish frame.

Post humanism describes an orientation in which humans are no longer the center of the moral and material universe, proposing a shift in relationship away from extraction, dominance, and separation of the person from the greater environment.

What happens when we engage AI - one of the most significant and divisive phenomena of our time - through this framing? What will AI mean for us as humans? What might it look like to remove ourselves from the center of the conversation, and creation itself? And how can the Jewish wisdom of the Aleph and the spiral of Jewish time offer us insight amidst the rapid unfolding of this technological revolution?

  • July 22 - As we usher in Tisha B’av and reflect on the destruction of the Temple, we will explore themes of destruction of reality, safety, order, and the supremacy of the human. We will explore the history and de/construction of the human and non-dualism in Judaism.

  • July 29 - As we turn towards Tu B’av, we will draw our attention to the cycles of history and opportunities of a future rooted in an expanded love ethic.

  • August 5 - For our final session, we will explore a uniquely Jewish framing of AI and the potential to build a different world beyond human.

You may be an early adopter or vocal champion of AI. You may be a passionate skeptic or outright dissenter of AI. Or you may find yourself tenuously in the middle. This series offers all of us an opportunity to reconsider our relationship not just to AI, but to the bigger questions of what it means to be human in a world destabilized by such a promiscuous post humanist technology.

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This is a three-part series taught by Graie Hagans.

One-time registration includes Zoom links for all three class sessions in the series. All sessions will be recorded and registrants will receive links to all three recordings. Please contact events@theshalomcenter.org if finances are a barrier to attend. By registering for this program, you agree to receive email communication from The Shalom Center.

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Graie Hagans

Graie [he/they] is a trans free radical, political educator, and strategic wanderer operating at the cosmic and earthly intersections of visionary praxis, systemic critique, and casual midrash. Anchored in pursuing olam ha’ba (the world to come), their work is a rigorous interrogation of the margins, seeking to look past the scaffolding of empire and find grounding in posthuman futures.

Graie’s practice treats political education and mutual aid frameworks as sacred choreographies—essential tools for shifting our relationships to digital life, technology, and governance. By actively working to collapse the myths of supremacy, they help communities imagine and design generative possibility models for the world after this. This expansive, systemic dreaming is anchored by a deep history of real-world execution; Graie brings years of material experience as an interfaith community organizer, a successful electoral campaign manager, and the former Chief Vision Officer at Bend the Arc. A native of St. Louis with a deep love for community, Graie holds an MPP from the Bloustein School of Public Policy at Rutgers University, bridging traditional structural policy with the design of generative possibility models for the future.

Graie was a member of The Shalom Center’s Cohort א and is joining a small team of Cohort א alumni to actively support the next chapter of The Shalom Center’s emerging sacred justice work and post-activist experimentation.