[IN-PERSON EVENT] A Human Future After AI... From Math with Professor Po-Shen Loh

​REGISTRATION OPENS MARCH 2nd! Free for member school parents and educators from member and non-member schools.

​What: A Human Future After AI... From Math with Prof. Po-Shen Loh

​When: Wed, March 23; 7:00 - 8:15pm PDT

​Where: In-person at The Nueva School | San Mateo

​Society is blazing into the unknown. No time for trial and error. Experience gives best practices for a past which is quickly obsolete. Designing a playbook for the future requires conducting “thought experiments,” exploring endlessly branching What-If’s. Inventing pithy principles which incite large-scale behavior. Closing loopholes. It’s poetry that meets messy reality, with the discipline of mathematical proof.

​Ancient Greek philosophers were mathematicians. So were Game Theorists who designed geopolitical strategy at the dawn of the Atomic Age.

​After thousands of conversations from rural America to New York to Kuala Lumpur, with students, parents, researchers, and policymakers, CMU Math Professor Loh concluded that for humanity to thrive after AI, we must link communities of people who are Thought Full: who both love to think, and love humanity. He'll share his observations, as well as the mathematically-inspired system he invented to build this civilizational “immune system” at scale.

​The key ingredients are education, parenting, and community, with action taken as soon as possible.

​ABOUT OUR SPEAKER

​Prof. Loh is a social entrepreneur and inventor. He combines math, science, and technology with firsthand exploration of the human condition. Across the global landscape of work, AI, and education. Major newspapers have covered his diverse innovations. His latest initiative unites math stars and actors to transform education.

​He won silver for Team USA at the 1999 International Math Olympiad, and served a decade as National Coach. He is a Hertz Fellow — in a community of broadly innovative scientists with roots in the Manhattan Project and Space Race.

​He personally speaks in an unprecedented 100+ cities per year on education-after-AI conferences. Undercover-substitute-teaching in K–12 classrooms. Visiting companies and labs. Public lectures. Learning while sharing ideas with students, parents, researchers, and policymakers. All while teaching at Carnegie Mellon and running his own EdTech social enterprise.

​WEBSITE: https://poshenloh.com

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