Nan Nelson – Envision Board Member
Consider the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A.I. tools like ChatGPT seem to think, speak, and create like humans. But what are they really doing? Leading experts explore what A.I. can – and can’t – do today, and what lies ahead: cancer cures and prediction, wildfire spotting, artificial limbs, and much more. Watch this 54-min. episode of PBS NOVA
Nan Nelson, Economic Transformation Signals Team
The concept of personhood is important – “persons” have rights. The trend of expanding the concept of personhood (to include pets?) began in ancient times and is likely to continue. Let’s look at the arc of change and what the implications might be for food, medicine, computing (AI) and the law. Read about the rights of personhood.
Nanette Nelson, Board Member
Another Easter, another survey showing religion’s recent ebb: This one is from Gallup, confirming a deepening of the 21st-century decline in church attendance. But diminishment coexists with transformation… So let’s try to imagine how these trends might shape American religion a generation hence.