Author Talk: Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI

Join Alex Pentland for a talk on his new MIT Press book Shared Wisdom: Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI, exploring how we can build a flourishing society by designing technology around human nature — rather than allowing technology to shape our society.

In Shared Wisdom, Alex Pentland delves into the history of innovation, emphasizing the importance of understanding how technologies and cultural inventions impact human society. Humanity’s great leaps forward—the rise of civilizations, the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution—were all propelled by cultural inventions that accelerated our rate of innovation and built collective wisdom. Solving current global challenges such as climate change, pandemics and failing social institutions will require similarly fundamental inventions.