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Hawaii Book & Music Festival 2021 | Conversation: A.I. to E.T. – The Future of Science & Technology and the Fate of Our Civilization and the Cosmos

October 28, 2021 Thursday @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

On Thursday, October 28 from 5:30 – 6:30pm , Dr. Jeffrey Watumull will join host Stewart Yerton for a conversation titled, “A.I. to E.T. – The Future of Science & Technology and the Fate of Our Civilization and the Cosmos.”

Dr. Jeffrey Watumull is Chief Philosophy Officer and Director of AI at Oceanit, where we are endeavoring to create human-style AI and discover whether its principles obtain in extralinguistic domains (e.g., physics, biology). He is also co-founder of the Cambridge Institute for Exo-Language. Dr. Watumull studied at Cambridge, MIT, Oxford, and Harvard.

Stewart Yerton reports on business and the economy for Honolulu Civil Beat. Those are subjects he spent more than a decade reporting on — at publications in New York, New Orleans and Honolulu.

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The 16th annual Hawaii Book & Music Festival returns virtually, October 1 – November 4, with its core program of Hawai‘i Authors, and community thought leaders and experts in Hawai‘i Sustainability & Resilience, Health & Wellness, Innovation Future, Hawaiian Culture, amplified by national and international Authors addressing some of the greatest issues for Hawai’i’s future.