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Talk with us about the eugenics baked into AI (time-sensitive)
You're invited to join the discussion
Kay Coughlin
August 27, 2025
August 27, 2025
Please join my colleague Yiğit Mengüç (here) and me for a discussion about eugenics and AI, based on the paper by Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres I featured for the Big Read over in my Patreon community during July. Sessions are scheduled for Wednesday, September 3 at 10 am eastern and/or Tuesday, September 9 at 9 am eastern.
Details below are from this original post by Yiğit on LinkedIn; if you want to join either or both of these discussions, reply to this message so you can receive a calendar invite from Yiğit. Here's the invitation to participate, in his own words:
I love learning about the history and politics of science. This is one of the ways I process the increasingly rapid changes in our world now. I also find that it makes it easier for me to remember how or where I have power to make changes in my life and in my community.
Pittsburgh native, Fred Rogers, used to quip that "you learn something old everyday." Artificial Intelligence was centered at the summit for AI and Energy in Pittsburgh a couple weeks ago. The history of AI, and in particular the grand challenge of "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)" to create a super-intelligent being, may seem so novel and urgent today but it has an old history. One surprising root of its story is shared by the now-debunked science of eugenics.
If you are as curious as I am about the intertwining of both the history and modern manifestation of AI and Eugenics, then join me and my mentor, J. Kay Coughlin 🎙, for a short journal club (paper link in comments) to ask questions, share what you know, or just listen. By the end of our hour together, you will be able to give a "family picnic summary" about the relationship between Eugenics and AI.
We are meeting September 3rd at 10am and September 9th at 9am (both times US Eastern).
Yiğit Mengüç
Image description: head and shoulders photo of Yiğit Mengüç, a man with light olive skin who has a pensive expression on his face and wears glasses and a dark suit jacket; he has dark eyes, a dark beard and shoulder-length salt-and-pepper hair.
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Have a meaningful day,
Kay Coughlin, CEO and Business Coach, Facilitator on Fire
