Should we embrace developments in A.I. or question the unintended consequences? Join us for a slaon dinner as experts on the intersection of technology and society Nicholas Carr  and James Hughes explore the implications of workforce automation and how it will redefine the job market, the labor force, and our future—for better or for worse.

Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr writes about technology and culture. He is the author of four books and has written for The Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Wired, Nature, MIT Technology Review, and many other periodicals. His new book, Utopia Is Creepy, collects his best essays, blog posts, and other writings from the past dozen years. In 2014, Carr published the acclaimed book The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us, which examines the personal and social consequences of our ever growing dependency on computers, robots, and apps. His previous work, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times bestseller. 

James Hughes

James Hughes is a bioethicist and sociologist who serves as the Associate Provost for Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning for the University of Massachusetts Boston, and also as the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he taught bioethics at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. Dr. Hughes is author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future.