Presented by ASU’s School of Arts, Media, and Engineering, the Center for Science and the Imagination, and Principled Innovation
Artists, scientists, and kindergarten teachers everywhere will tell you that imagination is the ignition system for discovery, creativity, and humanity’s greatest achievements. What happens in the brain when we dream up something new—and could a machine ever do the same?
Join Anna Abraham, a neuroscientist, psychologist, and expert in creativity research, andBrian Christian, author of the books The Most Human Human, Algorithms to Live By, and The Alignment Problem, for a thought-provoking discussion about machine intelligence and human ingenuity, and the surprising ways we may think, create, and learn in the future.
Speakers
Anna Abraham
E. Paul Torrance Professor,Department of Educational Psychology
Director, Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development
University of Georgia
Brian Christian
Researcher and Author
Ed Finn (moderator)
Founding Director, Center for Science and the Imagination
Arizona State University
This is a hybrid event, and is free and open to everyone. To join us online, choose the “virtual” option on the registration page. Virtual attendees will receive a link in email 48 hours before the event begins.
This event is sponsored by the National Endowment of the Humanities award AKB-279509-21. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this discussion do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.