Summer Lecture Series
This year, we are partnering with OLLI at Dartmouth to offer our members an exciting SIX-week online lecture series that asks, How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming America?
Members will register for the entire lecture series as one event. Each week, we will email you the zoom link for that week's lecture. Please do not share the link. It is only intended for paid OLLI at Pitt members who have registered for this lecture series.
Session 1, July 8 - What Can the Declaration of Independence Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence?
Presenter: Brinnae Bent, Executive in Residence in the Engineering and Professional Programs, Pratt School of Engineering at Duke; Director, Duke TRUST Lab
Session 2, July 15 - Can AI Think Like a Doctor?
Presenter: Adam Rodman, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School; Director of AI Programs, Shapiro Center for Research and Education, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Session 3, July 22 - AI: Too Artificial? Too Intelligent? Too Much Energy?
Presenter: Dan W. Reicher, Senior Scholar, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; Senior Fellow, Dartmouth Irving Institute for Energy & Society
Session 4, July 29 - What Will Be the Economic Impacts of AI?
Presenter: Patrick Wheeler, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Strategies, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Session 5, August 5 - Is AI Leading Us Toward a More Dangerous World Disorder?
Presenter: Michèle Flournoy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors; Co-Founder and Chair, Center for a New American Security
Session 6, August 12 - How Can We Build Human Morality Into AI?
Special time: 9:00 a.m. to noon
Presenter: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Distinguished Professor of Practical Ethics, Duke University
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Break: 10:15 AM, a 15- to 20-minute break where the moderator will go through all the questions that were submitted by the audience. Resume 10:30-10:40 AM and Q&A until 11 AM.
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Note: The last session on August 12 will run until noon to give more time for Q&A.
This lecture series will meet online July 8, 15, 22, 29, August 5, and 12.