What we’re about
Sunday Assembly Pittsburgh is “a secular congregation that celebrates life” with a mission to “live better, help often, and wonder more”. We are generally non-religious people that get together to listen to a talk, sing fun songs, and maybe have some refreshments. You can call it an “atheist church”, “humanist church”, or “secular community”—the labels are not important.
We host Assembly at 10 am on the 3rd Sunday of the month at the Wilkins School Community Center in Pittsburgh and virtually via Zoom. Assembly serves to leverage the positive power of learning, emotion, music and poetry, and just enjoying ourselves as a group. The assembly format is accessible to families with children and attracts a variety of ages. SAPgh also hosts other events throughout the month. Come check us out!
Upcoming events (2)
See all- Multimedia Meetup: The Empire of AI by Karen HaoNeeds location
Karen Hao, who has closely reported on the rise of the artificial intelligence industry, with a focus on Sam Altman’s OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. She compares the actions of the AI industry to those of colonial powers in the past. They, too, seize and extract precious resources to feed their vision of artificial intelligence: the work of artists and writers; the data of countless individuals posting about their experiences and observations online; the land, energy, and water required to house and run massive data centers and supercomputers. Taking a measured view, Hao raises questions about how AI is to be regulated to do the least harm, and comes at a time when the Republican Congress is attempting to block states from regulating AI for the next decade.
Other options rather than reading the book include watching either of these two interviews:
One hour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtQCthF2vlY
Seventeen minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NzW3o8zFEc
