The Intelligence Age may be the next era of humanity, after the Industrial Age. What can we learn from the history and theory of progress about a transition to a fundamentally new mode of production? And what will the role of humans be in a fully automated economy?

Jason Crawford will put AI development into the context of the grand narrative of human progress.

Event Details

4:30pm: Doors Open
5:00-6:00pm: Talk and Q&A

Jason Crawford is the founder of the Roots of Progress Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to building a culture of progress and restoring a bold, ambitious vision of the future. He writes and speaks about the history of technology and the philosophy of progress, and is the author of The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, forthcoming from MIT Press. He is also the host of the Progress Conference.

He has written for the MIT Technology Review, been interviewed as a spokesman for the progress movement by BBC and Vox, and given guest lectures at MIT. Vox named him to their “Future Perfect 50” list alongside Will MacAskill, Jennifer Doudna, and Max Tegmark. He is a Founding Fellow at the Cosmos Institute, an advisor to fellows at the Foresight Institute, and a former consultant for Our World in Data. He has received grants for his work from the Mercatus Center and Open Philanthropy.

Previously, he spent 18 years as a software engineer, engineering manager, and startup founder. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Human Agency in the Intelligence Age with Jason Crawford