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San Francisco

Greg Epstein: Beyond Tech Worship

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As technology has overtaken religion as a primary influence on 21st-century life and community, have tech titans and their innovations become our new false idols?

Greg Epstein, Harvard and MIT’s influential humanist chaplain, joins us in San Francisco—the epicenter of the technological revolution— to delve into what it means to go beyond worship to critically engage with tech and its role in our lives. In his new book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation, Epstein examines how the tech grip took hold and celebrates historical apostates, tech ethicists, skeptics, and whistleblowers who embody the tech reformation he declares is urgently needed.

As we face a future where AI may hold god-like power, there's never been a more critical time to examine our relationship with technology and collectively demand that tech serves us.

Notes

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Mon, Nov 18 / 5:30 PM PST

Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California
110 The Embarcadero
Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States

Speakers
Image - Greg M. Epstein

Greg M. Epstein

Humanist Chaplain at Harvard & MIT; Author, Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation

Moderator TBA

Format

5 p.m. doors open & check-in
5:30–6:30 p.m. program
(all times Pacific Time)

COST

Members receive 30–50 percent discounts (not a member? Join)

In-person:
$25 
$55 with a book
Online:
$10 
$40 with a book