Seattle University's Tech Ethics Initiative invites you to join us for a talk by Gary Marcus on his latest book, Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works For Us.

Gary Marcus is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, and a leading voice in artificial intelligence. He is well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience. He is the author of Taming Silicon Valley, The AlgebraicMind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, Rebooting AI (with Ernest Davis), and the New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero. He is the founder of Robust.AI and Geometric.AI.

Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us

On balance, will AI help humanity or harm it? AI could revolutionize science, medicine, and technology, and deliver us a world of abundance and better health. Or it could be a disaster, leading to the downfall of democracy, or even our extinction. In Taming Silicon Valley, Gary Marcus, one of the most trusted voices in AI, explains that we still have a choice. And that the decisions we make now about AI will shape our next century. In this short but powerful manifesto, Marcus explains how Big Tech is taking advantage of us, how AI could make things much worse, and, most importantly, what we can do to safeguard our democracy, our society, and our future.