Tue January 30, 2018
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi at The Interval: Ethics as Optimization
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New technologies not only change lives and disrupt markets, ?they bring up moral questions. Some that may be genuinely new; others have always been with us. The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, will discuss ethics, governance and moral purpose in our time of dawning AI and into the future.
The Interval at Long Now welcomes: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi (MIT, CASBS-Stanford)
Ethics as Optimization: ReThinking Technology and the Near Long Term
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Ven. Tenzin is a Berggruen Fellow developing a framework for establishing ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence.
One has a responsibility to be hopeful. If we are to survive as a species, if we are to survive as a planet, we have a responsibility to have a sense of hope — because that will trigger our ways of finding solutions.— The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, interview "How can we find hope?" on Ensia.com.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is an innovative thinker, philosopher, educator and a polymath monk. He is Director of the Ethics Initiative at the MIT Media Lab and President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a center dedicated to inquiry, dialogue, and education on the ethical and humane dimensions of life. The Center is a collaborative and nonpartisan think tank, its programs emphasize responsibility and examine meaningfulness and moral purpose between individuals, organizations, and societies. The Center has six Nobel Peace Laureates as its founding members and its programs run in several countries and expanding.
Venerable Tenzin's unusual background encompasses entering a Buddhist monastery at the age of ten and receiving graduate education at Harvard University with degrees ranging from Philosophy to Physics to International Relations. He is a Tribeca Disruptive Fellow and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Venerable Tenzin serves on the boards of number of academic, humanitarian, and religious organizations. He is the recipient of several recognitions and awards, and received Harvard’s Distinguished Alumni Honors in 2013 for his visionary contributions to humanity.More about Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford:Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
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The Interval at Long Now welcomes: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi (MIT, CASBS-Stanford)
Ethics as Optimization: ReThinking Technology and the Near Long Term
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Ven. Tenzin is a Berggruen Fellow developing a framework for establishing ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence.
One has a responsibility to be hopeful. If we are to survive as a species, if we are to survive as a planet, we have a responsibility to have a sense of hope — because that will trigger our ways of finding solutions.— The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, interview "How can we find hope?" on Ensia.com.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is an innovative thinker, philosopher, educator and a polymath monk. He is Director of the Ethics Initiative at the MIT Media Lab and President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a center dedicated to inquiry, dialogue, and education on the ethical and humane dimensions of life. The Center is a collaborative and nonpartisan think tank, its programs emphasize responsibility and examine meaningfulness and moral purpose between individuals, organizations, and societies. The Center has six Nobel Peace Laureates as its founding members and its programs run in several countries and expanding.
Venerable Tenzin's unusual background encompasses entering a Buddhist monastery at the age of ten and receiving graduate education at Harvard University with degrees ranging from Philosophy to Physics to International Relations. He is a Tribeca Disruptive Fellow and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Venerable Tenzin serves on the boards of number of academic, humanitarian, and religious organizations. He is the recipient of several recognitions and awards, and received Harvard’s Distinguished Alumni Honors in 2013 for his visionary contributions to humanity.More about Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford:Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today.
You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
New technologies not only change lives and disrupt markets, ?they bring up moral questions. Some that may be genuinely new; others have always been with us. The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT, will discuss ethics, governance and moral purpose in our time of dawning AI and into the future.
The Interval at Long Now welcomes: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi (MIT, CASBS-Stanford)
Ethics as Optimization: ReThinking Technology and the Near Long Term
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Ven. Tenzin is a Berggruen Fellow developing a framework for establishing ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence.
One has a responsibility to be hopeful. If we are to survive as a species, if we are to survive as a planet, we have a responsibility to have a sense of hope — because that will trigger our ways of finding solutions.— The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, interview "How can we find hope?" on Ensia.com.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is an innovative thinker, philosopher, educator and a polymath monk. He is Director of the Ethics Initiative at the MIT Media Lab and President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a center dedicated to inquiry, dialogue, and education on the ethical and humane dimensions of life. The Center is a collaborative and nonpartisan think tank, its programs emphasize responsibility and examine meaningfulness and moral purpose between individuals, organizations, and societies. The Center has six Nobel Peace Laureates as its founding members and its programs run in several countries and expanding.
Venerable Tenzin's unusual background encompasses entering a Buddhist monastery at the age of ten and receiving graduate education at Harvard University with degrees ranging from Philosophy to Physics to International Relations. He is a Tribeca Disruptive Fellow and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Venerable Tenzin serves on the boards of number of academic, humanitarian, and religious organizations. He is the recipient of several recognitions and awards, and received Harvard’s Distinguished Alumni Honors in 2013 for his visionary contributions to humanity.More about Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford:Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today.
You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
read more
The Interval at Long Now welcomes: The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi (MIT, CASBS-Stanford)
Ethics as Optimization: ReThinking Technology and the Near Long Term
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk will start 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Ven. Tenzin is a Berggruen Fellow developing a framework for establishing ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence.
One has a responsibility to be hopeful. If we are to survive as a species, if we are to survive as a planet, we have a responsibility to have a sense of hope — because that will trigger our ways of finding solutions.— The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi, interview "How can we find hope?" on Ensia.com.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event
The Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi is an innovative thinker, philosopher, educator and a polymath monk. He is Director of the Ethics Initiative at the MIT Media Lab and President & CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a center dedicated to inquiry, dialogue, and education on the ethical and humane dimensions of life. The Center is a collaborative and nonpartisan think tank, its programs emphasize responsibility and examine meaningfulness and moral purpose between individuals, organizations, and societies. The Center has six Nobel Peace Laureates as its founding members and its programs run in several countries and expanding.
Venerable Tenzin's unusual background encompasses entering a Buddhist monastery at the age of ten and receiving graduate education at Harvard University with degrees ranging from Philosophy to Physics to International Relations. He is a Tribeca Disruptive Fellow and a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
Venerable Tenzin serves on the boards of number of academic, humanitarian, and religious organizations. He is the recipient of several recognitions and awards, and received Harvard’s Distinguished Alumni Honors in 2013 for his visionary contributions to humanity.More about Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford:Since 01954 the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today.
You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
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