Special Lecture by Nick Bostrom: Can We Reshape Humanity's Deep Future? Possibilities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence, Human Enhancement, and Emerging Technologies

[Tom Johnson]

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The School for Advanced Research  presents a lecture by Oxford professor  Dr. Nick Bostrom   Can We Reshape Humanity's Deep Future?  Possibilities and Risks of Artificial Intelligence, Human Enhancement, and Emerging Technologies Nick Bostrom spends much of his time calculating the possible rewards and dangers of rapid technological advances - how such advances will likely alter the course of human evolution and life as we know it. One useful concept in untangling this puzzle is existential risk - the question of whether an adverse outcome would end human intelligent life or drastically curtail what we, in the infancy of the twenty-first century, would consider a viable future.  Dr. Bostrom is professor in the faculty of philosophy at Oxford and the founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute, a multidisciplinary research center that enables a few exceptional mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists to think carefully about global priorities and big questions for humanity.   Please join us for this engaging       and thought-provoking talk.   Sunday, June 7, 2:00 p.m.       James A. Little Theater at the NM School for the Deaf   $10 lecture only  $25 lecture with a reception and book signing on the SAR campus. Books will be available at the lecture and the reception.     tickets & more information available at:  www.sarweb.org/specialevents/bostrom

School for Advanced Research (SAR) | Post Office Box 2188 | Santa Fe | NM | 87504-2188

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