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Event Date as Display String:

Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 5:30pm - 6:45pm

Location:

Harvard Kennedy School, Wexner-434AB, 79 John F. Kennedy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/event/towards-life-30-ethics-and-technology-21st-century-unfollow-deradicalization-twitter?admin_panel=1

Event Description:

Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a new
talk series organized and facilitated by Mathias Risse, Director of
the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and Lucius N. Littauer
Professor of Philosophy and Public Administration. Drawing inspiration
from the title of Max Tegmark's book, Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age
of Artificial Intelligence, the series draws upon a range of scholars,
technology leaders, and public interest technologists to address the
ethical aspects of the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on
society and human life. Megan Phelps-Roper, Author of "Unfollow" &
Granddaughter of the Founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, will give
a talk titled, "Unfollow | Deradicalization via Twitter." Megan
Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church — the
fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and
anti-Semitic, and jubilant about AIDS and natural disasters. From the
age of five, Megan participated in the church's picketing almost daily
and spearheaded the use of social media in the church. Dialogue with
"enemies" online proved instrumental in her deradicalization, and in
2012, at the age of twenty-six, Megan left the church, her family, and
her life behind. Since then she has become an advocate for people and
ideas she was taught to despise — especially the value of empathy in
dialogue with people across ideological lines. A light dinner will be
served.

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Tuesday, October 22, 2019 - 17:30 to 18:45

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