AI Philosophy Nights: Metaphors for AI with Amy Kurzweil

Join us for the next edition of our monthly AI Philosophy Nights where we attempt communal sense-making. Each month, we bring together philosophers, historians, technologists, artists and social scientists for a high-level fireside chat, followed by small-group salon style discussions. This session: What are we talking to when we talk to AI? In this session, our founder Banu Kellner sits down with Amy Kurzweil to explore different metaphors through which humans conceptualize artificial intelligence and investigate what these metaphors reflect about humanity. 6:30-7:00pm Doors Open. Drinks & light bites will be served. Doors will be closed at 7pm. 7:00-8:00pm Amy's presentation & fireside chat discussing metaphors for machine intelligence. 8:00-9:00pm Small Group Discussions. Break into small-group conversations to grapple with these questions together. 9:00-9:30pm Whole Group Conversation. We will come back together to share insights and further questions. ~~~ Amy Kurzweil is a cartoonist for The New Yorker and award-winning author of Artificial: A Love Story, a memoir of her father Ray Kurtzweil's quest to construct an AI chatbot modeled on her grandfather's writings. Kurzweil's cartoons and long-form comics explore the questions surrounding family, identity, technology and the future of memory. Banu Kellner is an executive coach to AI Founders building frontier technologies. She is the author of the Superhumanist Manifesto and the founder of the SuperHuman Society, an organization focused on championing a future where technology expands human dignity, capability, and connection. Sponsors:Imbue. An AI company building tools to empower humans in the AI age. We’re building toward an open agent ecosystem where you can understand, modify, and verify AI agents, so they only work in your interest. Learn about our work and what we stand for: www.imbue.comScience Corporation. A clinical stage, vertically integrated technology company focused on solving some of medicine's hardest problems and most serious unmet medical needs. We are hiring: science.xyz/careers/