Artificial Intelligence will ruin humanity — displacing jobs, further exacerbating wealth inequality, eroding privacy, and posing an existential risk to human values while consuming vast amounts of energy. 

Artificial intelligence will make humanity smarter, faster and more efficient — untapping our potential by freeing us of clerical burdens, giving us tools to solve problems at a rapid scale, and providing new opportunities for personalized education experiences that cater to individual needs.

Here in 2025 it seems both of these statements could be true. 

As A.I.’s capabilities have grown exponentially in recent years with the sophistication of large language models, some experts argue we are crossing a major threshold in human history.

But is A.I.’s potential impact on the world overhyped? Or, a century from now, will our ancestors look back at this moment as the start of the A.I. revolution?

And what should individual citizens know about how to best use A.I. while advocating against its worst-case potential?

WHYY’s Studio 2 invites you to join us on February 27 at 6 p.m. at the Princeton Public Library for a free, public event to unpack these big questions. For this edition of Studio 2 ‘On the Road,’ hosts Cherri Gregg and Avi Wolfman-Arent will be joined by a panel of A.I. experts who will offer insights and take audience questions.

Guests:

-Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University professor and co-author of “A.I. Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference.”

-Tom Griffiths, director of the Princeton University Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence.

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