AI: Past, Present and Future (NEW RELEASE)
Bryan Alexander is an internationally known futurist, researcher, and teacher, working in the field of higher education’s future. He is the recipient of the Council of Independent Colleges Academic Leadership Award, and has been featured in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and on MSNBC. He recently published Academia Next: The Futures of Higher Education, which won an Association of Professional Futurists award.
Overview
Artificial Intelligence. It’s innovative, creative, and can be mind-blowingly accurate. But it’s also unreliable: fraught with misinformation, legal and cultural resistance, and ethical implications. Skeptics also fear potential harm to the job market, education, the climate and more.
In this brand-new talk, futurist and higher education specialist Bryan Alexander breaks down what AI is – and isn’t – explaining the different iterations (from “narrow” to “generative” to “super-intelligence”) and forecasting its implications for our future. To what extent will our world be powered by AI? With constant experimentation and new developments almost daily, can we keep up with how fast it’s moving? How will AI be monetized to benefit those creating and marketing this cutting-edge technology? What about the downside, from “deepfakes” and “hallucinations” to inherent biases and potential copyright infringement?
Professor Alexander also explores the critical opposition to this new, ever-changing technology, as well as the existential threats to Artificial Intelligence. Finally, he places a particular emphasis on how AI impacts higher education–specifically teaching, research, writing and creativity. Will academia reject or embrace this potentially revolutionary moment in history?