FPR’s Super Beaver EIC and Grove City University professor Jeff Bilbro looks to ancient myths to assess modern technology and futuristic fiction. Cassandra Nelson of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia is stuck somewhere in the middle, a bit like AI itself. Tessa Carman, a writer, teacher, and her mother, seeks a prosperous life in Minnesota and Maryland. Author and Berry Center board member Kate Dalton Boyer will introduce the speakers.
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1:00 Kate gets things started.
Jeff Bilbro: “Where are Weyland’s bones now?”
3:30 Kingsnorth and Scandinavian blacksmith explain
12:30 Temptation of peace and justice
15:00 AI Amigo for an autonomous society
19:00 Convocation by computer
22:00 Wise Touch
Cassandra Nelson: “The Central Man and True Life”
26:00 Contains a secret subtitle
29:15 Average machine that sees hallucinations
34:30 MAD results
41:00 Fancy playing with the computer
45:00 Opposition to copying
Tessa Carman: “The Joy of Technological Resistance”
46:30 FPR match game
48:00 Manifests and better tools
51:00 There’s no need for that.
55:00 Postman knocks and people dance
63:00 Better names and best practices
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Speaker bios and conference videos
Interview with Jeanne Schindler about the Postman Pledge
FPR Books and Bookstore
conference co-sponsor plow
Thanks to Wendell Kimbrough for providing the theme music
