Santa Rosa Junior College English instructor Jake Aharonian encouraged students to question the future of artificial intelligence with a Free Press video presentation Oct. 29 at Newman Auditorium.
Aharonian has taught English classes at SRJC since 2009 and hosted this event in hopes that students would question and experience differing perspectives of AI. Aharonian presented a video from the Free Press Debate YouTube series, “Will AI Save Us — or Destroy Us?”, which follows a series of live debates on a multitude of topics.
Journalist and author Nicholas Carr and computer scientist and philosopher Jaron Lanier spoke at the debate, arguing that the truth would not survive AI…