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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-biennial-2018-a-great-
 enchanted-garden-can-ai-give-us-back-our-sense-of-wonder-ryan-avent/
SUMMARY:The Serving Library: Liverpool Biennial 2018: A Great Enchanted Gar
 den: Can AI Give Us Back Our Sense of Wonder? – Ryan Avent
DESCRIPTION:BOOK NOW\n\nA talk by Ryan Avent (Senior Editor and Free Exchan
 ge Columnist\, The Economist\, Arlington\, USA) curated by The Serving Li
 brary in partnership with LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab for Liverpool 
 Biennial 2018\n\nIndustrialisation often deprived society of any sense of 
 purpose other than increasing output and incomes\, while modern economic g
 rowth pushes us to ever narrower specialisations that deny us a meaningful
  connection to our work. Progress built on advances in science and technol
 ogy is relentlessly rationalistic\, squeezing all the mystery out of the w
 orld while simultaneously reinforcing our individual unimportance within i
 t. Today's advances in Artificial Intelligence mean that much of how techn
 ology will work in future is entirely mysterious to all but a few experts 
 (and maybe even them as well). AI is creating spirited creatures\, like ca
 rs that drive themselves and robots that walk among us\, and it is easy to
  imagine how that could all turn out to be ugly and dystopian\, but this t
 alk will suggest that there are perhaps ways to make it beautiful and affi
 rming\, too.\n\nRyan Avent is Senior Editor and Free Exchange columnist at
  The Economist\, where he has covered the global economy since 2007. His 
 work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The New
  Republic\, The Atlantic and The Guardian. In his latest book\, The We
 alth of Humans: Work and its Absence in the Twenty-First Century\, he dis
 putes the idea that the digital revolution is different from any other\, a
 nd in addressing the difficult questions about the increasing abundance of
  labour and what this means politically\, economically and socially\, he a
 rgues that our age is very much like the industrial revolution.\n\nJoin us
  from 6pm for drinks and conversation ahead of a prompt 6.30pm start.\n\nT
 his event is part of the public programme for Liverpool Biennial 2018\, w
 hich includes a series of talks by leading thinkers and artists in respons
 e to the question Beautiful world\, where are you?
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LOCATION:The Serving Library\, Exhibition Research Lab\, Liverpool John Moo
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