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Join us for the final lecture in in PSR’s 2024 Earl Lecture series, Disruptive AI, Christian Nationalism, and Democracy. This lecture, Manufacturing Hope: Leveraging Religious and Technology Connectivity to Advance the Common Good will be led by John Robichaux, Executive Director for U.C. Berkeley’s Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, with a response by PSR President, David Vásquez-Levy.
The greatest threat to democracy is not extremism in itself, but the hopelessness that drives people to extremes. An emerging, diverse generation feels disengaged from democracy. Many will sit out the November election unless they feel they have agency not only through their vote, but through their actions, and a shot at shaping a more positive future. This will require us to leverage the best elements of technology to connect and augment human agency and knowledge, while reducing the isolation and polarization that are a biproduct of technologies that fragment. Drawing from lessons of history and contemporary social movements, we will bring together the insights from this series to concrete steps for citizens and leaders, as well as professionals and practitioners in religion and technology, to collaborate on increasing the promise and decreasing the peril of both AI and religion in a world at a critical democratic crossroads.
Reception to follow.
Learn more about the full 2024 lecture series here.
1 Hour of CEU credit available for those who participate in all four sessions. If you’re interested in receiving credits, please reach out to the Office of Development at development@psr.edu for more information.