General Seminar AI Futures Forecasts
That AI 2027 Futures Report Is Back
And so is General Seminar..just in a nick of time.
Check this out: the AI 2027 Futures team updated their AI Futures Model with some new (vaguely antagonizing) assumptions, some new timelines..and new confidence that this thing we called ‘a job’ will become obsolete..whatever that means.
Here's what we need to do: Instead of treating these kinds of futures forecasts like some kind of prophecy (or dunking on it just to excise that sense of confusion/rage), we’ll use it as fuel for imagining:
We’ll turn model claims into everyday evidence — those future-archeologists' artifacts dug up from a near future where AI is ordinary as buttered toast..or not!
In this General Seminar, we won’t pontificate about AI timelines. We won't make vague assumptions about what will or will not come to pass.
What we will do is explore how to think critically about such models and their implications for our understanding of a near future with, alongside of, within, and, you know..without this artificial intelligence thing!
We’ll interrogate what the model invites us to assume, and sketch alternative futures, which might just include ones where AI is deliberately “out of bounds”; it might just so include adjacent possible practices in which AI is constructively and generatively collaborative; it might just also include near futures in which AI is as sinister as a USB cable.
You get what I mean..we're reminding ourselves that futures are ours to imagine into, despite what Sam and the rest want us to see for our shared futures.
Grab your ticket. These go quick!
See you in your AI future!
Events are hosted on Zoom and are Recorded for Posterity!