Contemplating an Algorithmic Future

This opening day examines how artificial intelligence is reshaping human agency, public life, and the cultural imaginaries that define what it means to be human. We will consider how algorithmic systems reorder perception, influence civic and social life, and quietly script everyday experience.

Day One approaches artificial intelligence as a force that is reorganizing the conditions of contemporary life. Jennifer Granick, Vanessa Chang, and Nora N. Khan each open a different window onto this shifting landscape, illuminating how these systems shape our civic worlds, our embodied and cultural experiences, and the very processes through which meaning and authority take form.

Together, their perspectives converge on a central provocation: if artificial intelligence is actively rewriting the assumptions that structure human life, how must we rethink our roles—as citizens, creators, and thinkers—in an increasingly algorithmic future?

Each speaker will give a 30 minute presentation, followed by a moderated panel discussion with all presenters.