Futurist Bruce Sterling will critically examine the past, present, and future state of Artificial Intelligence. “AI is not entrepreneurial in spirit, it is not exciting, cutting edge start up innovation.  AI is big tech oligarchy.”

Bruce Sterling is a writer, journalist, design philosopher and futurist.  He has written a dozen science fiction novels and many short stories for which he earned several Hugo awards and other prizes.  As a writer, as well as an editor of anthologies like MIT Technology Review’s Twelve Tomorrows, Bruce has been playing a main role in shaping the genre of cyberpunk.