Machines That Talk: Thinking Clearly in an Age of Synthetic Knowledge

From the venue:

AFS proudly presents an examination of the large language models reshaping how we find, trust, and share information.

Our speaker, Dr. Reginald V. Finley Sr., author of AI-Epistemic Resilience: A Framework for Knowledge Integrity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, will explain what these systems actually are, the energy, infrastructure, and geopolitics behind them, and what happens as they arrive in our homes as talking devices and personal robots.  He will even perform live demonstrations with his robots, Aiden and Rose.  This talk offers practical tools for thinking clearly in a world where anything can be fabricated.

Dr. Finley holds degrees in Education, Biology, and Human Development. He has taught at both the K-12 and college level, and is currently a STEM professor at Franklin University, where he teaches critical thinking and scientific literacy.  He also founded Access to Robotics, a nonprofit bringing robotics literacy to underserved Georgia students.