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Peter Hershock, Humane AI Initiative at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, will give a talk in Alchemy titled “AI, Agency, and Alignment: An Coevolutionary Buddhist Perspective”.

Artificial intelligence is being celebrated by techno-optimists as setting humanity on a glidepath into utopian futures of frictionless choice. Techno-pessimists warn that AI poses an existential threat to humanity and may curtail our abilities to choose our own futures. Distinguishing between AI tools and intelligent technology, this talk will take a coevolutionary, “middle path” approach to understanding and responding to developments along the agential frontiers of human-AI interdependence to realize more humane futures for all.

Peter Hershock is director of the Asia Studies Development Program and coordinator of the Humane AI Initiative at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.