Superconvergence: How the AI, Genetics, and Biotechnology Revolutions Will Transform our Lives, Work, and World

The rapid growth of new AI systems like ChatGPT and Google Gemini has helped most people realize significant change is on the horizon. But while most of us still think of these AI capabilities as improved internet search tools, the implications are far more profound. Just like the agricultural, industrial, and computer revolutions before it, the AI revolution will transform almost every aspect of our personal and professional lives. Along with our new capabilities in genetics and biotechnology, it will change how we live and work, our economies, our healthcare, the foods we eat, our interactions with the world around us, and even our sense of what it means to be human. Leading futurist Jamie Metzl explores the big-picture implications of this transformative moment in our history — when we humans are rapidly increasing our abilities to engineer intelligence and re-engineer biology — and how individuals, organizations, and societies can best ride the wave of this change rather than be subsumed by it.

This event is in partnership with Rhode Island Center for the Book.