Generative AI tools, released by a handful of powerful tech companies, are remaking the economy, society, and human life as we know it. Must their vision be our common destiny?

In Boston Review’s recent issue AI Futures, technology writer Evgeny Morozov explores a radically different way of thinking about artificial intelligence by examining its past, and offers a more utopian vision for the role that technology can play in our lives.

In this event, Morozov will be joined by free software activist and former digital minister of Taiwan Audrey Tang and computer scientist and AI pioneer Terry Winograd for a discussion on how to build political power and a technological future that serves us all. Moderated by tech journalist Brian Merchant.

Cosponsored by the Boston Review, Stanford McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, and Stanford HAI. Reception to follow. A free copy of AI Futures will be provided to in-person attendees.

Event Details:

Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Time: 4:30 to 6 p.m. PT; Reception 6-7pm.

In-Person Location: ​​The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, Gates Computer Science, Room 119, 353 Jane Stanford Way Stanford, CA 9430

Livestream: To view this event via livestream, please click here to RSVP via Zoom.

If you require disability-related accommodation, please contact disability.access@stanford.edu as soon as possible or at least 7 business days in advance of the event.

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About Boston Review:

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About the speakers:

Brian Merchant is a journalist, critic, and the former tech columnist for the Los Angeles Times. His latest book is Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech.

Evgeny Morozov writes on technology and politics. He is author of To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism and The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. His latest podcast is “A Sense of Rebellion.”

Audrey Tang is Cyber Ambassador-at-large of Taiwan, where she previously served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs. She is coauthor, with E. Glen Weyl, of Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy.

Terry Winograd is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford, where he founded the Human-Computer Interaction Group.