The Renaissance offers a useful way to think about AI, particularly through the relationship between inquiry, authority, and inherited knowledge. Renaissance humanists brought renewed scrutiny to influential texts, examining their language and comparing their claims. Their work sometimes challenged much more than an interpretation. It questioned the foundations on which established authority rested.
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Rehearsing The Future: A FoBTV Conversation On Possibility Chains
I recently joined colleague Kevin Benedict on FoBTV for a conversation about the ideas that sit at the center of my work: systemic change, convergence, pressure, possibility chains, pathways, and decision spaces. For long-time readers of this blog, these concepts will be familiar. But the conversation offered a useful opportunity to bring them together in one place and explain why they matter now.
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