Join me for the premiere of my new film ‘Look Up Now’ on August 21: The Future of AI and Humanity, on Youtube
Greetings dear subscribers, today it’s just a brief announcement regarding the launch of my new film, LookUpNow, on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Humanity.
On Monday August 21st at 5pm CET, 4pm UK, 11 am EST, 8am PST, 7pm Dubai etc, LookUpNow will premiere on Youtube.
We will watch the film together while my director and me will answer questions via YT as well as on LinkedIn (just click to sign up). The film is 24 minutes long, and afterwards we will switch to Zoom (invitation only, but live-streamed on YT as well)) for a live discussion and debate.
You can also join the LIVE talk via Zoom on a preferred basis — just go here to sign up (it’s free of course) if you are interested in participating with audio and video.
LuN is a thoughtful and riveting 24-minute film featuring Futurist Gerd Leonhard as host, guide and narrator, directed by Emmy-award winning producer Christopher Sean Nolan. It is the first episode in a series of films on AI and the future of humanity currently being developed by Gerd and Chris. In the film, Gerd proposes that we should embrace AI and harness its positive potentials while at the same time we must consider and address its negative side-effects and unintended externalities. We must use AI as a powerful tool but not let it become a purpose on its own. AI should be used to help us to bring about what Gerd calls #thegoodfuture, not to replace humans, or to whittle away what makes us human, or to enable a synthetic, machine-led society. LuN explains why we should welcome smart machines but not seek to build generally intelligent artificial entities (AGIs) — because with digital intelligences, it’s competence that matters, not consciousness (quoting Professor Stuart Russell).
Some more screenshots are here on Flickr.)
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“As we see the future, so we act; as we act we become”
A shot from the film!
