Talk of the Towns 7/10/24: A Conversation About Artificial Intelligence in Our Lives

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Producer/Hosts: Ron Beard and Liz Graves Theme music for Talk of the Towns Theme is a medley from Coronach, on a Balnain House Highland Music recording. Talk of the Towns: Local Community concerns and opportunities This month: – What do you understand the term artificial intelligence (AI) to mean? – How do you understand AI already in use? How do you encounter it? – How have you made use of AI in your work and creative life? – What do you understand about concerns about AI… either addressing current or potential applications? – What are the most useful ways you have encountered to address some of these concerns? – What do you see as the potential of AI – Helping government better serve citizens and communities? – Helping with collaboration and understanding among people? – Helping people and institutions work through conflict? – Helping with learning (at any age)? – What might be some helpful ways of thinking about developing and using AI going forward? – What can we learn from human experience with other technology and scientific advancement as we ride the wave of AI? Guest/s: Gray Cox, professor of philosophy, College of the Atlantic, author of Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? : Dialogue and Collaboration in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, published by Quaker Institute for the Future, 2023. Nina Barufaldi St. Germain, business owner, writer, artist. Gregg TeHennepe, Senior Director, Computational Sciences, Jackson Laboratory. FMI: barharbor365.substack.com writing with Nina Barufaldi St. Germain. graycoxhomepage.wordpress.com more from Gray Cox. www.jax.org The Jackson Laboratory. About the hosts: Ron Beard is producer and host of Talk of the Towns, which first aired on WERU in 1993 as part of his community building work as an Extension professor with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant. He took all the journalism courses he could fit in while an undergraduate student in wildlife management and served as an intern with Maine Public Television nightly newscast in the early 1970s. Ron is an adjunct faculty member at College of the Atlantic, teaching courses on community development. Ron served on the Bar Harbor Town Council for six years and is currently board chair for the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, where he has lived since 1975. Look for him on the Allagash River in June, and whenever he can get away, in the highlands of Scotland where he was fortunate to spend two sabbaticals. Liz Graves joined Talk of the Towns as co-producer and co-host in July 2022, having long admired public affairs programming on WERU and dreamed of getting involved in community radio. She works as the Town Clerk for the Town of Bar Harbor, and is a former editor of the Mount Desert Islander weekly newspaper. Liz grew up in California and came to Maine as a schooner sailor.

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