Hosted by the Humanities Center and featuring graduate fellow, Seth Davis.

Ray Kurzweil may be history’s most influential writer on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Elon Musk and Peter Thiel endorse his views. But, besides predictions of Singularity and immortality, Kurzweil’s nonfiction contains bizarre erotic fantasies, including his lifelong dream to inhabit a female rockstar named Ramona. Reading these moments within Kurzweil’s corpus, this project speculates on the role of gender and sexuality in how we talk about AI.

Respondents include John Musser from GSWS + Annette Vee from English. This event will be hybrid, so you can attend it either in person in 602 CL or via Zoom as you prefer. 

Precirculate materials for the event are available here.