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Rabbi Dr. Avi Rosenfeld

On Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, the Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program at 麻豆区 College hosted Rabbi Dr. Avi Rosenfeld as part of its ongoing luncheon speaker series. Dr. Rosenfeld, who lives in Israel and is an adjunct professor of computer science at YC as well as an associate professor of computer science at the Jerusalem College of Technology in Jerusalem, Israel, presented 鈥淎rtificial Intelligence: Ethics, Law, and Judaism.鈥� Dr. Rosenfeld discussed the complexities that artificial intelligence will pose to adherents of Jewish law as computer programmers keep refining it. Yosef Tropp鈥�24YC remarked, 鈥淚t was fascinating to learn from Professor Rosenfeld about the crossover between halacha [Jewish law] and machine intelligence.鈥� In particular, Tropp praised Dr. Rosenfeld鈥檚 comparison of the use of Amazon鈥檚 Alexa to the concept of amira l鈥檔ochri [the prohibition of asking a non-Jew to perform labor on the Jewish Sabbath]. Rabbi Dr. Eliezer Schnall, director of the Honors Program, explained that Dr. Rosenfeld鈥檚 talk 鈥渆xemplifies the Torah U鈥檓adda [Torah and secular knowledge] studies that YU鈥檚 Honors students find particularly fascinating,鈥� adding that 鈥渢his lecture was another installment in an eclectic slate of events for the Honors luncheon series this semester.鈥� On Monday, Oct. 25, the Honors students enjoyed a seminar on research methodology in preparation for their honors thesis work.