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SUMMARY:The Serving Library: The Serving Library: Liverpool Biennial 2018: 
 A Great Enchanted Garden: Can AI Give Us Back Our Sense of Wonder? – Rya
 n Avent
DESCRIPTION:A Great Enchanted Garden: Can AI Give Us Back Our Sense of Wond
 er? – Ryan Avent\n\nA talk by Ryan Avent (Senior Editor and Free Exchang
 e Columnist\, The Economist\, Arlington\, USA) curated by The Serving Lib
 rary in partnership with LJMU’s Exhibition Research Lab for Liverpool B
 iennial 2018\n\nIndustrialisation often deprived society of any sense of p
 urpose other than increasing output and incomes\, while modern economic gr
 owth pushes us to ever narrower specialisations that deny us a meaningful 
 connection to our work. Progress built on advances in science and technolo
 gy is relentlessly rationalistic\, squeezing all the mystery out of the wo
 rld while simultaneously reinforcing our individual unimportance within it
 . Today's advances in Artificial Intelligence mean that much of how techno
 logy 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 car
 s 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 ta
 lk will suggest that there are perhaps ways to make it beautiful and affir
 ming\, 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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