Event
Coming Soon to YouTube: A Berggruen Institute Salon Featuring Adrienne Mayor, Berggruen Fellow at CASBS, and Margaret Levi, Berggruen Institute Board Member
- Date: February 4, 2019
Who first imagined automatons? Long before technology made robots possible, the ancient Greeks explored ideas–and fears–about creating artificial life. As early as Homer, myths envisioned robotic servants, animated statues, and artificial intelligence. Sophisticated machines were also actually built in antiquity, reaching a climax with a profusion of self-moving devices and automatons in the city of learning, Alexandria, the original Silicon Valley.
Watch the conversation unfold on YouTube as Margaret Levi and Adrienne Mayor have an in-depth conversation about Mayor’s book “Gods and Robots.”
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About The Berggruen Institute
About The Berggruen Institute
About The Berggruen Institute
About The Berggruen Institute
About The Berggruen Institute
About The Berggruen Institute
About The Berggruen Institute
About The Berggruen Institute
The Berggruen Institute’s mission is to develop foundational ideas and shape political, economic, and social institutions for the 21st century. Providing critical analysis using an outwardly expansive and purposeful network, we bring together some of the best minds and most authoritative voices from across cultural and political boundaries to explore fundamental questions of our time. Our objective is enduring impact on the progress and direction of societies around the world.