Near Future Laboratory Events
A Partial Index of Near Future Laboratory Events
The British Academy Building
Shaping Viable Futures: Human Agency and Artificial Intelligence
Dec 18, 2024 - Dec 18, 2024
An expert panel discussion on the evolving relationship between human agency and technology, exploring the implications of AI systems on society and the role of ethics, imagination, and policy in shaping viable futures. Held at The British Academy, London in collaboration with Google DeepMind, the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and the AI Policy and Governance Working Group.
Moderated by Prof. Alonda Nelson, this expert panel will wander into the questions, hopes, fears, dreads, dreams, and desires of our...
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Group photo from Detroit Imagines Harder October 16-18 2024
Detroit Imagines Harder
Oct 16, 2024 - Oct 18, 2024
Detroit Imagines Harder was my 2024 edition of the ‘Imagine Harder’ series of workshops in which attendees collaborate to workshop around a hot topic using Design Fiction, and begin to construct an artifact that represents the implications of change endemic to that topic.
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Movie theater marquee for the documentary Eno at the Brain Dead Studios
Eno.
Sep 26, 2024 - Sep 30, 2024
Gary, his generative documentary ‘Eno’, and Brian (Eno) are a kind of futurist of the best sort — they make the worlds they imagine and do so materially — and shape culture far more than the futurists who think getting a certificate in Foresight is good enough to call yourself one.
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