The Perils & Promise of AI

Brown Bag Lunch Online Presentation with Ross Beveridge, Professor Emeritus, Humboldt: Because most of us interact daily with a smartphone, our thoughts and actions play out with a rhythm and complexity unimagined 50 years ago. As revolutionary advances in information technology, computer science and artificial intelligence (AI) accelerate, it's clear we’re undergoing a profound transformation of a scope that is hard to grasp. Whether you take delight in it, recoil in disgust, or otherwise pass judgment on AI, odds are that your personal relationship to information, ways of communicating, and approaches to solving problems have changed, and will continue to change. This talk will offer some constructive ways of thinking about these new realities.