Ai Salon: Science Fiction Futures
The world we live in today was mostly dreamed up by science fiction writers living in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, with intervening history over-delivering in unexpected areas like software services and under-delivering in others, like moon colonies.
We will discuss the role of science fiction as a cultural tool for grappling with an unknown future, where unimaginable changes are driven by staggering breakthroughs in technology amid the constants of human nature and the psychology of the mind. And, the powerful role narrative plays in the construction of our own lives, the world we share, and the part we seek to play in it.
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The AI Salon is a community founded in San Francisco focused on intimate, small-sized group discussions on the sociological, economic, cultural, and philosophical impacts and meaning of AI developments. We host small group discussions, all of which you can find on our calendar. You can find summaries of our previous conversations on our substack. We generally wait until the week before the event to approve guests and cannot approve everyone due to space constraints.
Please show up before 1:30 so that conversations can flow smoothly.