Summer Institute Symposium: AI and the Future of Learning featuring keynote presenter, Dr. ILlah R. Nourbakhsh (Open to the Public)

Join us on August 9th for a special Summer Institute: AI and the Future of Learning featuring keynote presenter, Dr. ILlah R. Nourbakhsh.

The Summer Institute is a special three-day program for doctoral students in Carlow’s EdD program. One of those days is open to the public and graduate students/area educators.

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Illah R. Nourbakhsh is Kavcic-Moura Professor of Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, inaugural Executive Director of the Center for Shared Prosperity, and co-director of the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment Lab. He was the Inaugural K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University. In 2009 the National Academy of Sciences named him a Kavli Fellow. In 2013 he was inducted into the June Harless West Virginia Hall of Fame. He was previously Robotics Group Lead for NASA/Ames during the MER landings, and is a retired civil servant, NASA GS15/10. In 2019 he was named a Hastings Fellow. He has co-authored textbooks and popular literature, including Turn Left, AI and Humanity, Robot Futures, and Parenting for Technology Futures. He has authored articles for The New Yorker and Foreign Affairs, in addition to academic journals and book chapters. He is a trustee of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Winchester Thurston School and the Southwestern Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project. He is a Director at Open Planet, a London-based Community Interest Corporation, and also President and a director at Friends of Open Planet, a 501(c)3 based in the United States.

AI, Education and Humanity Keynote Presentation
The maturation of artificial intelligence is transforming work and education at a rapid pace. How will the advances in human intelligence affect our lives in the future? How can machine learning and robotics be deployed to support, rather than detract from, student learning in college and from social welfare and human empowerment? Graduates of our educational institutions will shape our robot future and help us understand and manage the ethical implications of artificial intelligence. Promotion of technology fluency—the ability to be a developer and shaper, rather than merely a consumer, of these technologies—is the key to student success and personal fulfillment in the decades of change ahead. In this talk I will use McCabe’s Keywords as a grammar for understanding the ways in which AI interrogates our identity as humans, and the ways in which we can prepare students for a challenging future.

All attendees will receive a copy of Dr. Nourbakhsh’s new book, Turn Left: Spinning an Intercultural Identity.

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