Culture lab invites a context for deepening understanding of critical, higher attention events, influences, and dynamics in culture space and the world stage more generally.

Culture lab invites a context for deepening understanding of critical, higher attention events, influences, and dynamics in culture space and the world stage more generally.

Culture lab invites a context for deepening understanding of critical, higher attention events, influences, and dynamics in culture space and the world stage more generally.

This is a Freeform session in response to the conditions of possibility which shape our relation to technology in general and AI in particular, with intention to support consideration of questions pertaining to 'right relationship' with AI. 

Can we enter 'right relationship with AI?' and if so, what would that look like? 

Related questions involve considering: what is the meaning of intelligence, how can we distinguish 'artificial' from 'natural' intelligence, and what conditions the possibility for 'relations' as such to be 'right'?

Culture lab invites a context for deepening understanding of critical, higher attention events, influences, and dynamics in culture space and the world stage more generally. In recent years we have dialogued on wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. In this dialogue, the invitation is to a critical inquiry into the relation between civilisation and barbarity, the stories we come to know these notions through, the cognitive dissonance so pervasive in relation, and a confrontation with the challenge of discernment and the hard line of judgment.

Culture lab invites a context for deepening understanding of critical, higher attention events, influences, and dynamics in culture space and the world stage more generally.

Culture lab invites a context for deepening understanding of critical, higher attention events, influences, and dynamics in culture space and the world stage more generally.

Culture lab invites a context for deepening understanding of critical, higher attention events, influences, and dynamics in culture space and the world stage more generally.

This session invites a recorded dialogue in relation with the cultural, philosophical, and attentional significance of Sam Harris, one of the most well known public intellectuals of at least the last 15 years.