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Adam Becker & Jon Evans | Book Talk: “More Everything Forever” and “Exadelic”

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Past
Date
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM PST/PDT
Location
353 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA, 94305 | Room 119
Topics
Arts, Humanities
Industry, Innovation
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Join HAI Policy Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn for a conversation about the potential future(s) of AI and humanity with Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever, and Jon Evans, author of Exadelic and the Gradient Ascendant newsletter.

Who are the individuals and communities predicting AI doom, AI boom, or AI as normal technology? What motivates them, and what should we make of their predictions? Amidst competing narratives of AI utopia and dystopia, what lessons can we learn from speculative fiction? How can the rest of us take action to ensure a human-centered future that serves all of us and our planet?

Speakers
Adam Becker
Journalist, Author, and Astrophysicist
Jon Evans
Author and Engineer
Moderator
Riana Pfefferkorn
Riana Pfefferkorn
Policy Fellow, Stanford HAI
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