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SUMMARY:Inside the Empire of AI with Karen Hao (Virtual)
LOCATION:Wilmette Public Library\nWilmette Public Library
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DESCRIPTION:Award-winning journalist Karen Hao explores AI’s rapid 
 rise\, ethical challenges\, and societal impact in a timely virtual conver
 sation about the future of artificial intelligence..\nhttps://wilmette.lib
 net.info/event/16874200
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Join a timely conversation with Karen Hao\
 , award-winning journalist and author of&nbsp\;<em>Inside the Empire of AI
 </em>. In this virtual event\, Hao will explore the rapid rise of artifici
 al intelligence\, the social\, political\, and ethical questions surroundi
 ng AI development today\, and the questions posed in her work &ndash\; Wil
 l AI produce broad-based societal benefit for all? Or return us to an age 
 of empire? The path forward is in our hands.</p>\n<p>Whether you&rsquo\;re
  excited about AI\, cautious about it\, or just trying to understand the h
 ype\, this event offers an accessible look at one of today&rsquo\;s bigges
 t technological shifts.</p>\n<p>Karen Hao is the instant&nbsp\;New York Ti
 mes&nbsp\;bestselling author of Empire of AI and named one of the most inf
 luential people in AI by&nbsp\;Time. She is lead designer of the Pulitzer 
 Center&rsquo\;s AI Spotlight series as well as co-host of BBC&rsquo\;s pod
 cast\, The Interface. The&nbsp\;first journalist to ever profile OpenAI\, 
 Hao was formerly a reporter for&nbsp\;The Wall Street Journal\, covering A
 merican and Chinese tech companies\, and a senior editor for AI at&nbsp\;M
 IT Technology Review. Her work has been cited by Congress\, featured in un
 iversity curriculums\, and remade into museum exhibits.&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>
 \n<p>Moderator: Reanna Esmail\, Lead Librarian for Instruction at Cornell 
 University and a prominent voice in critical digital pedagogy and intellec
 tual freedom\, will join Karen Hao in conversation.</p>\nhttps://wilmette.
 libnet.info/event/16874200
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