Journalist Nicholas Thompson and authorized scholar Nita Farahany will share the stage for a provocative dialogue about synthetic intelligence on Nov. 16 as a part of UB’s Distinguished Audio system Sequence.
The dialogue, titled “AI and the Way forward for Every part,” will happen at 7 p.m. within the Mainstage Theatre within the Middle for the Arts, North Campus.
Earlier than serving as CEO of The Atlantic, Thompson was editor-in-chief of WIRED journal, the place he broke important tales about cyber-warfare, the Robert Mueller investigation and quite a few different subjects. His groundbreaking investigative reporting on Fb was a finalist for a 2020 Loeb Award, and he oversaw work that gained the Pulitzer Prize and the Nationwide Journal Award.
At The Atlantic, Thompson has led groups that gained Nationwide Journal awards for protection of the COVID-19 pandemic, new views on 9/11, the rise of worldwide autocratic energy, the case for returning the nationwide parks to Native American tribes and the hypocrisy behind high-class schooling in America.
Farahany, the Robinson O. Everett Distinguished Professor of Regulation & Philosophy at Duke College and founding director of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, is a number one scholar on the moral, authorized and social implications of rising applied sciences.
She was appointed by President Barack Obama to the Presidential Fee for the Examine of Bioethical Points. She at present serves on the Nationwide Advisory Council for the Nationwide Institute for Neurological Illness and Stroke, as an elected member of the American Regulation Institute and on the International Future Council on Frontier Dangers for the World Financial Discussion board, amongst others. Her publications embody the ebook “The Battle for Your Mind: Defending Your Proper to Assume Freely within the Age of Neurotechnology.”
Tickets for Thompson’s and Farahany’s look vary from $30 to $50 and might be bought on-line by Ticketmaster or in individual on the Middle for the Arts Field Workplace from midday to six p.m. Tuesday by Friday.
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