Today's events!
Shelly Turkle on AI/Alexandre Lefebvre on Liberalism (also Tuesday event cancelled)
Event #1: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK
“Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines?”
Sherry Turkle in conversation with Audrey Borowski
Technology is the architect of our intimacies. We are human because language makes us so. And yet, we now contemplate a world where from our earliest years we talk to smart machines. Machines have no friendship to offer, and yet we persist in the desire for conversation, companionship, and even communion with the inanimate. What does that do to who we are as humans? What do we forget when we talk to machines? How can we remember ourselves? You can find out more and register here.
Event #2: 4pm PT/7pm ET/9am (Tues.) AET
“Liberalism as a Way of Life”
Alexandre Lefebvre in conversation with Helena Rosenblatt
Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was. Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre will argue in this event, many of us are liberal without fully realizing it – or grasping what it means. Misled into thinking that liberalism is confined to the realm of politics, we fail to recognize that it’s the water we swim in. In conversation with historian Helena Rosenblatt, Lefebvre will discuss how so many of us are liberal to the core, why liberalism provides the basis for a good life, and how we can make our lives better and happier by becoming more aware of, and more committed to, the beliefs we already hold. You can find out more and register here.
Please note that the planned “Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, Ecology” event on Tuesday has been cancelled. We hope to rearrange it for later in the year.
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