When Minds Multiply: Rethinking Learning in the Age of Human and Artificial Intelligence

Join us in welcoming guest speaker, Ollivier Dyens for his presentation to Cambrian faculty and staff:

When Minds Multiply: Rethinking Learning in the Age of Human and Artificial Intelligence

How can we meet the challenges of a world that will undergo the equivalent of 20,000 technological changes by 2100? How can we integrate disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, big data, simulation, DeepFakes, etc., into our teaching methods, institutions and principles? How can we develop critical thinking skills in a world where truth and falsehood are continually intertwined? How do we react to a world where algorithms are infiltrating thought, creativity, laws and governance? This conference will examine the major trends in the techno-social changes confronting us, and propose possible solutions to the fundamental challenges of today’s and tomorrow’s world.

Guest Speaker Biography

Ollivier Dyens is Chair of the Département des littératures de langue française, de traduction et de création at McGill University, where he held the position of Deputy Provost (Student Life and Learning) from 2013-2018. From 2013-2018, he was Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning at Concordia University.

He is also the founder and co-director of McGill’s Building 21 (building21.ca) a laboratory dedicated to thinking beyond the acknowledged, the recognized and the comfortable.

Ollivier Dyens holds a PhD from Université de Montréal. He is the author of fourteen books including La Condition inhumaine, published by les Éditions Flammarion in Paris, and Metal and Flesh: The Evolution of Man, Technology Takes Over, published by MIT Press (which was translated into Mandarin in 2021).

Ollivier Dyens also sat on the board of Québec’s Conseil supérieur de l’éducation from 2011 to 2015.

Further Reading

If you are interested in reading some of Ollivier Dyens’ work, the Cambrian Library has several publications available:

• Metal and Flesh : the evolution of man : technology takes over (available online)
• Other publications are listed here

Virtual Meeting Details

🔗 Join via Zoom: https://cambriancollege.zoom.us/j/97087294834

📅 Friday, May 30 | 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM