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Cars coming towards the viewer on a wide street in twilight.
Thursday, October 20, 2022 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

ALUMNI SPEAKER SERIES “Don’t Look Up! Understanding Difficult Technological Truths"

Artificial intelligence will take your job! Genetic engineering will accelerate the loss of biodiversity! The modern smart-city is a privacy disaster! Killer robots and technological progress are out of control! Is the techno-apocalypse upon us? Should we run for the exit? Or are there more nuanced ways to understand the complex interaction between technology and society and values?

Thursday, February 22, 2024 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: A conversation with Shoshana Zuboff and Jim Balsillie

Join us for an urgent discussion on "surveillance capitalism", its threat to our information civilization, and how its trajectory undermines democratic norms and the centuries-long evolution of market capitalism.