About us
The Long Now Boston Meetup Group is organizationally independent but philosophically aligned with The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco. Recently the Boston Meetup Group received permission to form an independent non-profit in the Boston/Cambridge area using The Long Now Foundation name. A first for Long Now. Stay tuned for developments over the next many months as Long Now Boston begins it new chapter.
The Long Now Foundation was founded in San Francisco in 01996 (www.longnow.org). As stated on their website: Long Now was established "to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today's accelerating culture and help make long-term thinking more common. We hope to foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years."
The Long Now Boston effort was founded by Bill Davison in 02015. We started the Long Now Boston Meetup Group in January 02016. We now have an active Steering Committee and Events Planning subgroups. Our program year typically extends from September through May with an occasional summer event.
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Upcoming events
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AI and Existential Risk: Live recording of Prosthetic Gods podcast
The Foundry Cambridge, 101 Rogers St Cambridge, MA 02142, Cambridge, MA, USNOTE: You must register and buy tickets by clicking this Eventbrite link; RSVPing via Meetup will not get you a ticket.
This will be a live podcast recording of Nir Eisikovits and James Hughes’ popular podcast, Prosthetic Gods. How will today's urgent technological choices around AI shape humanity's long-term trajectory? Will AIs kill us all, or enable evil? Will we forget how to be human? What choices can we make today to survive and persevere?
Join Long Now Boston on Saturday, May 30 at 8pm at The Foundry, 101 Rogers St. in Cambridge, for a fascinating, provocative live podcast recording and conversation with James Hughes and Nir Eisikovits of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston.
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