Welcome To Season 14!
October 15th Film Showing
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
October 15, 2026 6:30PM
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
From the Academy Award®-winning filmmakers behind Everything Everywhere All at Once and Navalny; a father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity.
“The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” is a hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created… and what’s at stake if we get it wrong.
104 Minutes
Audience Discussion Panelist
Ramón Alvarado – Associate Professor, Philosophy and Data Science Initiative, Data Ethics Coordinator/Colloquium Committee Chair
Ramón Alvarado studies the implications of the use of computer technologies such as computer simulations, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other data science methods in science and society. His expertise lies at the intersection of philosophy of technology, philosophy of science, and ethics. His most recent publications have focused on issues related to trust in artificial intelligence, injustice and bias in data science, and the reliability of computer simulations in science.
November 19th Film Showing
Lightworkers
November 19, 2026 6:30PM
Lightworkers
I first asked what constitutes “activism” and followed with “what can you do?” I was interested in how “good people” lived their lives. I asked how people became who they were. I asked what is courage, empathy and joy. I approached these questions from a socio-historic perspective that I thought would be the best context for my audience, but who was I trying to reach?
Despite my desire for inclusivity, I knew I could not reach everyone, but I wanted to reach the widest swath of Americana possible. I decided to focus on the voting public, particularly those who might shift the balance of power in the congress… those voting in the midterms.
As I have never been active in party politics I was flying blind. I tried to use my ignorance as a springboard for an educational exercise. This was a journey. I would use the very tools I was trying to examine, particularly the “kindness of strangers.” As in GOOD MEN, I interviewed fifty citizens I identified as “do-gooders,” people who lived their lives prioritizing helping others… people who saw themselves as part of a social order they felt an allegiance to. I call them LIGHTWORKERS. This is the story of my journey.
84 Minutes
Audience Discussion Panelist
If the relentless bad news leaves you overwhelmed or despairing, Paul Loeb offers the antidote of hope. “The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times” (Basic Books; new edition available 10/13/2026) offers inspiring global stories of how people faced impossible odds and changed history anyway.
Veteran organizer and social change analyst Loeb gathers seventy-plus voices—Nelson Mandela, Alexei Navalny, Maya Angelou, Desmond Tutu, Mary Pipher, Heather Cox Richardson, Bill McKibben, Jesmyn Ward, Rutger Bregman, Pablo Neruda, Bill Moyers, Alice Walker, and dozens more—describing how people faced impossible odds and kept going anyway
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