Artificial Intelligence Needs Humanity

PEDAGOGIES FOR LIFE

Speakers: Mike Pell, Microsoft; Sergio Imparato, Harvard University

To manage the present ecosystem of technology and to prepare for the future requires imagination and judgment, the core faculties of a humanistic education that is currently sidelined and threatened. Paradoxically, the most forward looking approach to technology is to promote humanistic education, as training to build capacity to understand, to experiment, and to think by abduction.

About the Speakers

Widely recognized as a world-class designer and prolific thought leader, Mike Pell currently leads The Microsoft Garage in New York City, part of the company’s worldwide innovation program for moving ideas forward quickly to foster a culture of experimentation. An attractor for the city’s brightest minds and bravest explorers, this unique space designed by Pell, enables a new kind of envisioning and rapid prototyping to turn promising ideas into reality, every day. 

Pell’s first book, Envisioning Holograms (2017) is considered a must-have for tomorrow’s most influential storytellers and explorers. His second book The Age of Smart Information (2019) details how the fundamental nature of communication is transforming with the combination of AI and Metaverse technologies. Mike’s third book, Visualizing Business (2022), shows our most complex and dynamic businesses in an entirely new light.

Sergio Imparato is a Lecturer in Government and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He also teaches at Harvard Extension School, Harvard Summer School, and Harvard’s Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology Department. Dr. Imparato’s research and teaching focus on applied ethics, classical political thought, and grand strategy in International Relations.