Glenview, IL
Join us for this wonderful FAN Zoom event. BONUS BOOK GIVEAWAY, sponsored by FAN! Details on Zoom registration page. For the last decade, a handful of AI companies have been racing to build what may be the most powerful technology in history: artificial general intelligence, a computer system capable of outdoing humans at almost anything. Some of the people building it hoped it would cure diseases and heal the planet. Others feared it could end humanity. They built it anyway. In The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence, tech journalist Kevin Roose tells the story of this twenty-first-century Manhattan Project. Drawing on more than 150 interviews with insiders at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, along with unpublished company documents, he takes readers into the rooms where researchers watched language models learn to talk, reason, and code, and into the White House, where officials struggled to govern a technology improving too fast to understand. He reports on the split that led Anthropic's founders to leave OpenAI, Sam Altman's firing and reinstatement, Google's scramble to catch up, and the San Francisco scene where "accelerationists" and "doomers" battle over what comes next. This event is suitable for youth 12+. This program is presented in partnership with Family Action Network (FAN). FAN is a 501(c)(3) organization that curates a high-quality speaker series each academic year. All FAN programs are free and open to the public. Program presented virtually via Zoom.
