The Social Justice Discussion Group will meet on Friday, November 7 at 1:30 pm on Zoom to begin a discussion of Artificial Intelligence.

We agreed to begin our next gathering with a demonstration/primer on how to use AI, which will include a live demonstration walking you through how to go online and use one of the AI tools available.

If time permits, we’ll begin a discuss of the AI-themed readings below. These are all short, so we should plan to consider all of them between our meetings on Nov 7 and 21.

 
A book extract from Yuval Harari’s book, Nexus:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/24/yuval-noah-harari-ai-book-extract-nexus
 
An Essay: "Keep the Future Human" by Anthony Aguirre, Future of Life Institute:
https://keepthefuturehuman.ai/essay/docs/executive-summary
 
NYT Review of a new book on AI: If Everyone Builds It, Everyone Dies by Yudkowsky and Soares:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/technology/ai-eliezer-yudkowsky-book.html?searchResultPosition=2

 

 

New members are always welcome. We use Zoom Breakout Rooms to facilitate participatory discussion if there are more than 12 people, so there is no limit to how many could attend.

To be added to the Zoom invitation mailing list, please contact Helene Hilger: helene.hilger@gmail.com.