PROBUS Club of Durham West

FEBRUARY SPEAKER

LIANNE HARRIS


FAMOUS LOVERS

Forget Romeo & Juliet or Caesar & Cleopatra--there are other couples who had a love that would light the ages!  A love that was scandalous, tragic, forbidden, loyal . . . and oft-times entirely unexpected.

Drawing on eye-witness accounts, contemporary writings and actual letters, presenter Lianne Harris takes a peek inside the intimate, daring, wrenching, even tempestuous private lives of some of history’s ‘other’ great couples.

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January Speaker - Dr. Christopher DiCarlo
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity

Dr. Christopher DiCarlo is a philosopher, educator, and author. He is the Principal and Founder of Critical Thinking Solutions, a consulting business for individuals, corporations, and not-for-profits in both the private and public sectors. He currently holds the position of Senior Researcher and Ethicist at Convergence Analysis – a UK-based organization focusing on AI Risk and Governance.

Dr. DiCarlo is also the Ethics Chair for the Canadian Mental Health Association and is also a lifetime member of Humanist Canada and an Expert Advisor for the Centre for Inquiry Canada. He often teaches in the Department of Biology at the University of Toronto (Mississauga) and at The Life Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University and is a past Visiting Research Scholar at Harvard University in Department of Anthropology and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Dr. DiCarlo has won several awards including TV Ontario’s Big Ideas Best Lecturer in Ontario Award and Canada’s Humanist of the Year.

Dr. DiCarlo has been invited to speak at numerous national and international conferences and written many scholarly papers ranging from bioethics to cognitive evolution. He is the author of several books and his best-seller: How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Asking the Right Questions, was released by Prometheus Books as a 2nd Edition to mark its 10th–year anniversary. His last book: So You Think You Can Think. Tools for Intelligent Conversations and Getting Along was published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers and was released in June of 2020. And his current book from Rowman and Littlefield, will be released in January, 2025, and is called: Building a God: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the Race to Control It.

Dr. DiCarlo also hosts a new podcast called: All Thinks Considered in which he engages in free and open discussion about current, important issues with world thought leaders, politicians, and entertainers through the lens of Critical Thinking and Ethical Reasoning.

Subsequent to Dr. Dicarlo's presentation, he has provided a link for trusted sources of information.  You will find 29 links towards the bottom of the article. To access Click Here

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