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Tuesday, April 8
3:00-5:00 pm (SK/CST/GMT-6)
FREE | REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Online or In-Person (Diefenbaker Building, 101 Diefenbaker Place, Saskatoon)
The idea that computers might one day be able to outsmart humans has been around for as long as the computer age. Mostly, it seemed fanciful. Computers could crunch numbers, sure, but could they really think, reason, decide, and get smarter? With the advent of large-language models (LLMs) and tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, what was once science fiction is increasingly looking like here and now.
In this talk, Dr. Kirsten Wright, Managing Director of the University of Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI) will discuss the idea of artificial super-intelligence and explore how it could disrupt the labor/capital relationships that have long structured the way we organize ourselves. With this potential outcome in mind, she will set out a bold set of idea for building a resilient society anchored around strategic policy interventions that could help tip us into a society with more shared ownership (e.g., co-operatives) and a re-centering of place-based rural and urban economies.
About the speaker: Kirsten Wright is Managing Director of the University of Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI). She is a leading thinker on scaling social change set in the context of environmental sustainability. Her work sits at the intersection of systems finance, governance, and innovation, with a focus on complex systems, economic resilience, and systemic transformation. Drawing on urban scaling theory, rent dynamics, she models how financialization shapes urban systems and explores pathways for resilient and equitable cities. Kirsten is a Visiting Scholar hosted by the USask Communities and Sustainability Signature Area.
FREE | REGISTRATION REQUIRED
WHEN: Tuesday, April 8, 3:00pm-5:00pm (SK/CST/GMT-6)
HOW: Register at https://tinyurl.com/preparingfor
ATTENDANCE OPTIONS (choose during registration):
In-Person: Prairie Room, 101 Diefenbaker Place, Saskatoon SK
Virtual: via Livestream (link will be emailed in advance)
Hosted by the University of Saskatchewan's Communities and Sustainability Signature Area with support from the Canadian Centre for the Study of Co-operatives.
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About Us: The USask Communities and Sustainability Signature Area of Research explores the interrelatedness of human communities and natural ecologies. Understanding the relationships among different peoples and the natural world and ensuring they are maintained in a good way is crucial to overcoming urgent environmental, social, economic, and political hurdles.
Embracing a spectrum of research approaches that are collaborative, relational, and community-oriented, the Communities and Sustainability Signature Area is working alongside communities as they develop meaningful solutions to pressing challenges. Recognizing that communities have distinct and important needs, priorities, models and structures, research activities within this area move beyond conventional scholarship models and towards shared and reciprocal sustainable community outcomes.
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