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HAI Seminar with Adam Becker & Jon Evans, moderated by Riana Pfefferkorn
Date
Wed January 21st 2026, 12:00 - 1:15pm
Event Sponsor
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
Location
Gates Computer Science Building
353 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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353 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
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A book talk of “More Everything Forever” and “Exadelic” moderated by Riana Pfefferkorn
Join HAI Policy Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn for a conversation about the potential future(s) of AI and humanity with Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever, and Jon Evans, author of Exadelic and the Gradient Ascendant newsletter. Who are the individuals and communities predicting AI doom, AI boom, or AI as normal technology? What motivates them, and what should we make of their predictions? Amidst competing narratives of AI utopia and dystopia, what lessons can we learn from speculative fiction? How can the rest of us take action to ensure a human-centered future that serves all of us and our planet?
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