Join us in conversation with Dr. Ed Finn, professor at ASU and founder of the Center for Science and the Imagination. Dr. Finn explores how we can reassert our active agency and imagination in an age of passive technology. Find out how the Academy can be a site of radical futurist re-imagining, particularly through interdisciplinary thinking that combines approaches from the sciences, technologies, and humanities.

Dr. Finn pushes for a privileging of curiosity, creativity, and permission to disrupt the ‘tyranny of the average’ and he asks us to imagine a culture akin to a ‘Centaur Match’ in Chess games in which teams of humans collaborating with AI’s compete to create, in his words, the most ‘beautiful’ version of the sport.