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SUMMARY:Third Thursday | AI for Humans
DESCRIPTION:Third Thursday — October 15th\, 6:30 to 8:30 PM\nFive questions about the machines\, and one question about your host \nSomewhere right now\, some very clever people are trying to build a mind that can outthink yours. They’d prefer you didn’t lose sleep over it. \nThis month’s documentary takes on the questions everyone is quietly asking about artificial intelligence\, and it handles them with dry British wit and some unsettling candor: \n\nWhat is “superintelligence\,” really?\nIs it coming for my job?\nWhat actually happens in the two seconds after I ask a chatbot a question?\nWhat if it all goes right?\nAnd can I trust anything it tells me?\n\nAlong the way you’ll meet a Bletchley Park codebreaker who warned in 1965 that a sufficiently clever machine might be “the last invention” we ever need to make. You’ll see entry-level jobs quietly disappear\, and companies sheepishly rehire the humans they replaced. Data centers draw as much power as small cities\, enough that Three Mile Island is coming back online to feed them. An AI cracks a 50-year-old biology puzzle and helps win a Nobel Prize. A Swedish cancer-screening program catches tumors that doctors missed. And a synthetic “actress” suddenly starts speaking Cantonese on live television. \n \nOne piece of advice: watch your host closely. By the end of the evening\, you may have some questions about who\, or what\, has been talking to you all night. \nAs humanists\, we put our trust in evidence\, reason\, and human judgment\, and few technologies test all three the way this one does. Join us for the film\, then stay for a conversation about what we want from these machines\, who gets to decide\, and how a thinking person can tell what’s real anymore. \nFree and open to the public. Curious skeptics are especially welcome.
URL:https://www.omahahumanists.org/event/third-thursday-ai-for-humans/
LOCATION:UNO | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center – Rm 127\, 6400 S University Dr Rd N\, Omaha\, NE\, 68182\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational,Third Thursdays
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SUMMARY:Third Thursday | Democracy Noir
DESCRIPTION:Third Thursday — August 20th\, 6:30 to 8:30 PM\nFilm Screening: Democracy Noir \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDemocracy Noir is a 2024 political documentary directed by Oscar-nominee Connie Field. The film chronicles the systematic dismantling of democratic institutions in Hungary under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán\, framing his regime as a blueprint for modern authoritarianism admired by right-wing movements globally. \nThe narrative focuses on the rise of Orbán’s Fidesz party\, which utilized free elections to secure power before altering constitutions\, capturing the judiciary\, and seizing control of the media to cement one-party rule. The documentary draws explicit parallels between Orbán’s methods and contemporary political trends in the United States\, noting Orbán’s influence on figures like Donald Trump and policies such as Project 2025. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n \nWe’ll screen the film and open the floor for discussion afterward. The event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://www.omahahumanists.org/event/third-thursday-democracy-noir/
LOCATION:UNO | Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center – Rm 127\, 6400 S University Dr Rd N\, Omaha\, NE\, 68182\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational,Third Thursdays
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