In our next Candlelight Chat, we’re going to focus on two seemingly unrelated topics: AI; and the Second Half of Life.
These two situations have more in common than you think: both require us to rethink everything — from our daily schedules, to our sources of meaning and purpose.
We’re going to talk about how to find meaning and purpose, in an era in which super-intelligence threatens to take over our tasks — and at a time of life when our customary tasks often fall away, and we need to reinvent ourselves.
Please join us this Sunday, on Zoom, from 1-2 pm ET!
We’ll send log-in instructions this Saturday. To participate, you must be a paid or scholarship member of The Quiet Life. Members can participate either live, or by watching the video replay, which we’ll send the following week.
Our guest will be Dr. Diane Hamilton — a behavioral expert, author, and keynote speaker whose work focuses on curiosity, perception, and what gives people a sense of purpose. Her forthcoming book, ADAPTIVE CURIOSITY: How Humans Find Purpose in the Age of Intelligent Machines, introduces four paths to meaning: exploration, connection, creation, and influence. Through these paths, readers can better understand what gives them purpose — and how to continue growing as the world changes around them. While AI provides the backdrop, the book addresses a much larger human question: How do we continue to find fulfillment, contribute to others, and remain curious throughout our lives?
*As usual, we’ll also invite you to ask your questions of Dr. Hamilton. You’ll be able to talk to her either via the written chat, or by “raising your hand” and coming online to chat with her.
I really hope you join us!
As always, you can start leaving your questions for Dr. Hamilton below. And you can pre-order her new book here.
Can’t wait to see you Sunday!
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Wow that be a very great discussion and let’s see what the kind of ideas to face such challenges roaming in our minds.
Though it is anecdotal, I do have concerns about AI. Most of my concerns are for my children, now grown. One son in law is a pilot for Delta Airlines. I am not too concerned about him, it is an earned skill with important skill trust issues. But the other son in law is in the financial management area, and wow, this could end. I frankly don’t know why people seem so unconcerned about the displacement of really skilled humans, really good people who may find very soon that all their efforts, all their hard work, might very soon mean nothing. Again, I see this matter through the lives of my children and their families, but I also think about how this may impact our society en mass. I’m not sure we are prepared for what is coming. Susan, as you might have expected, I am Eeyore on this subject. :-)