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DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to be human in an age of AI?\n\nby Andrew May
 nard\, Arizona State University\, Jeffrey Abbott\, Blitzscaling Ventures\n
 \nDate: Thursday\, June 18\, 2026\n	Time: 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.\n	Location
 : Online\n\nAttend online\n\nView poster\n\n\nAbstract\n\nAdvances at the 
 cutting edge of artificial intelligence are challenging long-held beliefs 
 around what makes us special as humans — while simultaneously promising to
  amplify who we are\, and who we aspire to become. As they do\, growing te
 nsions are precipitating an existential crisis\; not around the emergence 
 of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)\, but a loss of identity and purp
 ose. In this talk we will approach this crisis from two complementary pers
 pectives\, exploring both the nature of the challenge and opportunities to
  harness it. Drawing on the recent book AI and the Art of Being Human\, Je
 ffrey Abbott will frame this as both a practical challenge and a unique op
 portunity. Using the tools and stories the book is built around\, together
  with his personal and professional insights\, he will explore what contin
 ues to bring meaning and value to being human as AI systems become increas
 ingly capable\; including how harnessing this will be essential to buildin
 g authentic companies\, even as autonomous and agentic capabilities threat
 en to replace people. Andrew Maynard will build on this as he explores the
  increasingly close coupling between AI and humans\; including drawing on 
 his thinking around concepts such as constitutive resonance\, and how our 
 relationship with AI potentially alters both user and technology. Together
 \, both speakers will explore new perspectives on what it might mean to be
  human in an age of increasingly powerful and transformative AI.\n
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SUMMARY:MCCHE Precision Convergence Webinar Series with Andrew Maynard and 
 Jeffrey Abbott
URL:/desautels/channels/event/mcche-precision-converge
 nce-webinar-series-andrew-maynard-and-jeffrey-abbott-373331
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