Community Dialogue: Exploring the Implications of the Coming AI Revolution

Come and join an ongoing dialogue on how the oncoming avalanche of AI-driven technological advances will affect us as individuals and as members of our community. This bi-monthly dialogue at the Prescott School Community Center is designed to tap into each other’s knowledge, feelings, hopes, and fears, and to start exploring the questions we should be asking ourselves as we prepare for this wave of disruptive innovations coming our way while we still have time to make a difference.

The first gathering is devoted to identifying the places where you, the attendees, see AI showing up in your lives. Then we will group those advances into domains such as economics, education, defense, culture, crime/policing, etc. While doing this, we will start to see what is termed overlap: how a breakthrough in one domain affects other domains. Example: medical breakthroughs may extend our lifespans by a decade. Other advances include eliminating entry-level jobs for recent college grads, which affects contributions to Social Security. How will these pressures affect the nature of our educational system? The implications of the overlap will be profound as breakthroughs occur across most fields of study. As a group, we will then pick a topic schedule to start drilling down into these various domains and their implications.

The group will decide together on the topics and action items in the subsequent discussions.