Does the considered malicious HALs hold you up at evening? Are you already on a ready record for AI implants? Are you skeptical of the trendy tendency to make issues binary to generate false controversies and erase nuance? Our upcoming digital studying group is ideal for you! We took inspiration from Russ Robert’s EconTalk archives and this loopy, fast-moving technoscape throughout us and put collectively readings and listenings for curious conversationalists.
What to Count on
- 3 distinct classes: 2 are asynchronous; 1 is on Zoom. Come to 1 or all!
- Podcasts to take heed to (or learn transcripts of) paired with quick articles
- A educated and welcoming dialogue chief: Dr. Pleasure Buchanan
- Opening questions, respectful members, difficult concepts, and possibly new buddies
- Particular visitor Russ Roberts at our closing assembly
Assembly Particulars
Session 1: Could 5-9 within the Liberty Fund Portal area
Session 2: Could 12-16 within the Liberty Fund Portal area
Session 3: Wednesday, Could 21; 2-3:30 pm japanese on Zoom
The right way to Be part of
In case you are already a member of the Liberty Fund Portal area, you’ll find particulars right here:
https://libertyfund.circle.so/c/timeless-artificial-intelligence-doom-or-bloom
Should you aren’t but a member, you’ll be able to observe the prompts to enroll on the above hyperlink.
If in case you have any questions, please contact Christy Lynn Horpedahl at chorpedahl@libertyfund.org
Session Particulars
Week 1: A Timeless Studying Group: AI Doom
Half I of the sequence “Artificial Intelligence: Doom or Boom?”
An asynchronous dialogue, with an emphasis on potential destructive outcomes from AI, reminiscent of unemployment, social disengagement, and existential threat. Individuals might be invited to counsel particular matters for a separate session that might be held on Zoom on Could 21, 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm EDT.
- EconTalk: Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Risks of AI (2023)
- EconTalk: Who’s Afraid of Synthetic Intelligence? (2025)
- “Trurl’s Electronic Bard” (1965) by Stanisław Lem.
On this prescient quick story, a scientist builds a poetry-writing machine. Sound acquainted? (If anybody participated within the Life and Destiny studying membership with Russ Roberts and Tyler Cowen, there are parallels between Lem’s work and Vasily Grossman’s “Life and Fate” (1959), as each emerged from Jap European mental traditions in the course of the Chilly Battle.)
Week 2: A Timeless Studying Group: AI Increase
Half II of the sequence “Artificial Intelligence: Doom or Boom?”
An asynchronous dialogue, with an emphasis on advantages of AI, together with elevated financial development and new discoveries. Individuals might be invited to counsel particular matters for a separate session that might be held on Zoom on Could 21, 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm EDT.
Week 3: AI Widespread Room
Half III of the sequence “Artificial Intelligence: Doom or Boom?”
A digital assembly on Zoom, Could 21, 2025, 2:00-3:30 pm japanese, with particular matters together with educating.
