Panel Discussion — How can we prepare for A.I. before it changes the world?

This panel discussion (See Panelists & Event Description below) invites you to sincerely bring your questions about the potential promise and dangers of the introduction of recent developments in AI technology into the fabric of our civilization. We will focus on the current state of the technology and near term future. The event is co-organized by Consciousness Hacking San Diego and Potential Paradigms.

Please Submit Your Questions here!

Event Organization
Each panelist speaks for roughly for 7-10 mins. We will pose of the submitted questions. We enter breakout rooms, moderated themed rooms and we return back and summarize each group.

Description
Recently, it seems we have suddenly entered a new era of Artificial Intelligence and the excitement and angst is palpable.

Technological revolutions have played a radical role in the industrial revolution, and the advent of the information age. But these technological revolutions have come with a nuanced role in nuclear wars, climate crises, colonialism, materialism, fragmentation of attention, and many other issues to name a few.

We can each imagine being empowered with a AI personal assistant who can finish our sentences, compose music , drive cars, write complex software tools, leaving us to focus only on being more creative and to discover the unknown potentials of being human!

This new technology brings into question what it means to be human and what it means to be creative. The possibilities are unknown and that’s not comfortable!

Whatever view we might take it would seem prudent to be cautious and sincere in our investigation of this subject.

Panelists

Dr. Robert Twomey (Artist, Engineer)
Robert Twomey is an artist and engineer exploring poetic intersections of human and machine perception, particularly how emerging technologies transform the intimate everyday. He is an Assistant Professor with the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a visiting scholar with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination.

Ted Kyi (Engineering)
Ted Kyi is the Senior Vice President of Business Intelligence & Analytics at Matrix Medical Network .Ted is also the organizer of the San Diego Machine Learning Meetup group

Zack Prager (Engineering and Psychology)
Zack is a full-stack developer, lecturer, community organizer, and entrepreneur working on humane and ethical tech. He is also the organizer of Consciousness Hacking San Diego.

Kenan Azam (Moderator & Philosophy)
Kenan is a writer and host at Potential Paradigms Show which shares conversation on emergent paradigms in our now apocalyptic civilization. He is trained as an engineer and is a student of Hindustani classical vocal music and practitioner of the spiritual tradition of Kashmir Shaivism.