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URL:https://witherlelibrary.net/events/living-well-with-gordana-hassett-6/
SUMMARY:Living Well with Gordana Hassett
DESCRIPTION:A Discussion of Meghan O’Gieblyn’s God\, Human\, Animal\, M
 achine\nZoom format.\nAll are welcome. Co-sponsored by Northern Light Heal
 th.\nAbout God\, Human\, Animal\, Machine\nA strikingly original explorati
 on of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificia
 l intelligence\, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior Sta
 tes.\nFor most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted plac
 e ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descar
 tes’s division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm\,
  in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e.\, souls—migh
 t be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology\, with artificial in
 telligences that surpass our comprehension and control\, and the spread of
  digital metaphors for self-understanding\, the core questions of existenc
 e—identity\, knowledge\, the very nature and purpose of life itself—ur
 gently require rethinking. (Penguin Books)\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\n\nhttps:/
 /networkmaine.zoom.us/j/88962336961\n\nMeeting ID: 889 6233 6961\nSuggeste
 d Additional Reading/Listening\n1          Meghan O’Gieblyn\, 
 “Routine Maintenance: Embracing Habit in an Automated Word”. Harper’
 s Magazine. January 2022. This article preceded the publication of God\, H
 uman\, Animal\, Machine and takes an historical look at routine and how it
  applies in the modern world.\nhttps://harpers.org/archive/2022/01/routine
 -maintenance-embracing-habit-in-an-automated-world-meghan-ogieblyn/\n2  
         Meghan O’Gieblyn discussing her article\, “Routine Main
 tenance” with Harper’s Magazine.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0cF
 CZwgiCs\n3          Moore's Law for Everything\, Blogpost\, by Sa
 m Altman (Open AI) · March 16\, 2021. OpenAI CEO Altman offers a manifest
 o on how the world will change and how to succeed in it with ever more dom
 inant AI.\nhttps://moores.samaltman.com\n4          Kevin Roose. 
 Futureproof: 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation.\nNew York Times 
 technology columnist Kevin Roose lays out a hopeful\, pragmatic vision of 
 how humans can thrive in the machine age. Roose rejects the conventional w
 isdom that in order to succeed in the age of intelligent machines\, we hav
 e to become more like computers—hyper-efficient\, data-driven workhorses
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