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SUMMARY:“The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State“
DESCRIPTION:“The Artificial State is the factory farming of humans\, the sorting and segmenting\, the isolation and alienation\, as if humans were becoming to machines what animals had become to humans.” —Jill Lepore \n“Much in history is headlong but few grand transformations have been more precipitate or more heedless than the rise of . . . the Artificial State\,” writes Jill Lepore in this passionate account of how rule by machine has ravaged the world. Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism\, which argued in 1951 that the machinery of modern life was reshaping the very fundamentals of human existence\, Lepore\, profoundly disturbed by the technology revolution and by the soulless inundation of artificial intelligence\, unfurls a new history for our own twenty-first century. \nBuilding on an essay in The New Yorker in 2024\, Lepore’s clarion call traces our increasing dependence on and strangulation by data. Political campaigns\, awash in an avalanche of fake bots\, have been reduced to attention-mining algorithms\, while multinational media corporations dictate public discourse\, and the era of the liberal nation-state seems to be coming to a rapid end\, replaced by billionaire technocrats reliant on autocracy and the tools of AI. \nWith Orwellian overtones\, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State demonstrates how technology has corroded global democracy\, leading to the destruction of both human community and capacity for self-government\, creating a new form of AI government\, a digital citizen’s assembly\, where AI will recommend the course of action to humans in place of human-run legislatures. Especially sobering with this proliferation of “dizzying\, ever-changing schemes\, prophesies\, and predictions” is that the Artificial State has come at the expense of the natural world\, leading to catastrophic loss of wildlife habitat and biodiversity. \nDeliberately alarming\, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State\, despite its abundance of dire facts\, is not a funeral dirge; rather\, it’s an inspiring wake-up call\, written in Lepore’s typically elegiac prose\, which demonstrates that nothing about the Artificial State was inevitable\, for it is a “government without consent\, even government without humans.” It can\, Lepore asserts\, be dismantled. Other heinous systems\, like feudalism\, fascism\, and slavery\, have also been dismantled\, but disassembly requires identifying the parts\, tracing the sources. It requires telling a new history. This is the purpose of The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State. \nJill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University\, professor of law at Harvard Law School\, and a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the New York Times bestsellers These Truths and We the People.
URL:https://humanserviceforum.org/event/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-artificial-state/
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SUMMARY:Springfield Public Forum: Fareed Zakaria
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be back to no tickets required when we welcome CNN’s Fareed Zakaria to Springfield Symphony Hall on a NEW DATE- 12/1! \nThe CNN host and best-selling author will discuss the revolutions―past and present―that define the polarized and unstable age in which we live. \nPopulist rage\, ideological fracture\, economic and technological shocks\, war\, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk―the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived\, and thrived\, through more than one great realignment. \nZakaria will discuss four present-day revolutions: globalization\, technology\, identity\, and geopolitics. As we find ourselves at the nexus of these seismic revolutions\, we can easily imagine a dark future. But Zakaria will show that pessimism is premature.
URL:https://humanserviceforum.org/event/springfield-public-forum-fareed-zakaria/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T180000
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SUMMARY:Springfield Public Forum: Ketanji Brown Jackson
DESCRIPTION:Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will share her life and world\, tracing her family’s ascent from segregation to her confirmation on America’s highest court within the span of one generation. Through trials and triumphs\, Justice Jackson’s journey will resonate with dreamers everywhere\, especially those who nourish outsized ambitions and refuse to be turned aside. Her moving\, openhearted tale will spread hope for a more just world\, for generations to come.
URL:https://humanserviceforum.org/event/springfield-public-forum-ketanji-brown-jackson/
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SUMMARY:Worth Standing Up For
DESCRIPTION:We hope you can join us at one of the Truth Tellers Theater Ensemble’s upcoming performances of this year’s production Worth Standing Up For.\n  \nThis moving and courageous performance advocating for positive change in the child welfare system was performed last week for an audience of Massachusetts Department of Child and Families social workers and administrators—the very people who navigate the system every day\, making impossible choices and often feeling the weight of a system too big to change. \n  \nThe honesty\, openness\, and bravery of the actors and their audience was a testament to the power of art to transform and transcend. It was a poignant reminder of what’s possible when we listen to the voices of those with lived experience—because stories change hearts\, and changed hearts change systems. \n  \nJoin us and witness the transformative power of storytelling. \n  \nUpcoming Performances: \n  \nWednesday\, May 14 \n5:00PM | Holyoke Media \n  \nWednesday\, May 21 \n10:00AM | Massachusetts State House \n  \nThursday\, May 22 \n6:30PM | De la Luz Divine Theater at Lighthouse Holyoke
URL:https://humanserviceforum.org/event/worth-standing-up-for/2025-05-22/
CATEGORIES:Community Calendar,HSF Member Event
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SUMMARY:Worth Standing Up For
DESCRIPTION:We hope you can join us at one of the Truth Tellers Theater Ensemble’s upcoming performances of this year’s production Worth Standing Up For.\n  \nThis moving and courageous performance advocating for positive change in the child welfare system was performed last week for an audience of Massachusetts Department of Child and Families social workers and administrators—the very people who navigate the system every day\, making impossible choices and often feeling the weight of a system too big to change. \n  \nThe honesty\, openness\, and bravery of the actors and their audience was a testament to the power of art to transform and transcend. It was a poignant reminder of what’s possible when we listen to the voices of those with lived experience—because stories change hearts\, and changed hearts change systems. \n  \nJoin us and witness the transformative power of storytelling. \n  \nUpcoming Performances: \n  \nWednesday\, May 14 \n5:00PM | Holyoke Media \n  \nWednesday\, May 21 \n10:00AM | Massachusetts State House \n  \nThursday\, May 22 \n6:30PM | De la Luz Divine Theater at Lighthouse Holyoke
URL:https://humanserviceforum.org/event/worth-standing-up-for/2025-05-21/
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SUMMARY:Worth Standing Up For
DESCRIPTION:We hope you can join us at one of the Truth Tellers Theater Ensemble’s upcoming performances of this year’s production Worth Standing Up For.\n  \nThis moving and courageous performance advocating for positive change in the child welfare system was performed last week for an audience of Massachusetts Department of Child and Families social workers and administrators—the very people who navigate the system every day\, making impossible choices and often feeling the weight of a system too big to change. \n  \nThe honesty\, openness\, and bravery of the actors and their audience was a testament to the power of art to transform and transcend. It was a poignant reminder of what’s possible when we listen to the voices of those with lived experience—because stories change hearts\, and changed hearts change systems. \n  \nJoin us and witness the transformative power of storytelling. \n  \nUpcoming Performances: \n  \nWednesday\, May 14 \n5:00PM | Holyoke Media \n  \nWednesday\, May 21 \n10:00AM | Massachusetts State House \n  \nThursday\, May 22 \n6:30PM | De la Luz Divine Theater at Lighthouse Holyoke
URL:https://humanserviceforum.org/event/worth-standing-up-for/2025-05-14/
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