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Craig Mundie with Sam Altman: Artificial Intelligence, Hope and the Human Spirit

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In his final book, the late Henry Kissinger joined forces with two leading technologists to mount “a profound exploration” (says Walter Isaacson) of the epochal challenges and opportunities presented by the revolution in artificial intelligence—a breakthrough that they believe dramatically empowers people in all walks of life while also raising urgent questions about the future of humanity.

Kissinger and his coauthors, technologists Craig Mundie and Eric Schmidt, argue that as AI absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, it will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality. It might well solve some of the greatest mysteries of our universe and elevate the human spirit to unimaginable heights. But it will also pose challenges on a scale and of an intensity that we have never seen—usurping our power of independent judgment and action, testing our relationship with the divine, and perhaps even spurring a new phase in human evolution.

Join us in person or online for this in-depth talk between Mundie and Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, about charting a course between blind faith and unjustified fear while navigating the age of AI.

Notes

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Thu, Dec 12 / 6:00 PM PST

Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California
110 The Embarcadero
Taube Family Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States

Speakers
Image - Craig Mundie

Craig Mundie

President, Mundie & Associates; Former Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft; Co-author, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

Image - Sam Altman

In Conversation with Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI; X @sama

Format

5:15 p.m. doors open & check-in
6–7 p.m. program
7 p.m. book signing
(all times Pacific Time) 

COST

Members receive 30–50 percent discounts (not a member? Join)

In-person: 
$40 
$70 with a book
Free for Leadership Circle members (without a book) 
Online:
$10 
$40 members with a book
Free for Leadership Circle members (without a book)