Join us monthly on Sunday afternoons at Amherst College to explore nonfiction (and the occasional fiction) on AI. Discussions, led by AILA staff, students and guest faculty, will also continue online. Borrow your copy from Jones or Frost Libraries and be part of the conversation. Email: aila@amherst.edu to join the mailing list or for more information!
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November’s book is Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari. Nexus looks through the long lens of human history to consider how the flow of information has shaped us, and our world. Taking us from the Stone Age, through the canonization of the Bible, early modern witch-hunts, Stalinism, Nazism, and the resurgence of populism today, Yuval Noah Harari asks us to consider the complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power.
AI Book Club meets in Pemberton Lounge, Chapin Hall, Amherst College at 2pm.