Humanizing Artificial Intelligence with Nicanor Perlas

Humanizing Artificial Intelligence: 
Using Cultural Power, Governance & Business 
to Address the Challenges of Our Time 

You are invited to join UC Santa Cruz's inaugural Right Livelihood College Summer Institute! We are honored to host Right Livelihood Award Laureate Nicanor Perlas for this weeklong seminar in sunny Santa Cruz, California, where the redwood forest meets the Monterey Bay. This promises to be a powerful small-group seminar experience with participants from a wide range of backgrounds and ages. Please register soon as we expect the course will fill quickly. 

Nicanor Perlas is an adviser, global activist, writer and speaker on artificial intelligence, globalization, societal threefolding, Sustainable Integrated Area Development (SIAD), post-materialist science or the second and more spiritual scientific revolution, leadership, and self-mastery. He has advised global civil society networks, social enterprises, UN and Philippine government agencies, including the Office of the President. He headed global and national civil society networks, that were responsible for stopping 12 nuclear power plants, banning 32 pesticide formulations, and mainstreaming sustainable development, including organic farming in the Philippines, thereby educating citizens worldwide on their inherent power to create a better world.

He has written over 500 articles, monographs, and books including Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding, an international bestseller, translated in 9 languages as well as Humanity’s Last Stand: The Challenge of Artificial Intelligence, A Spiritual Scientific Response. He has been a plenary speaker on a diverse range of topics, in over 100 global conferences in 25 countries and 130 national conferences in the Philippines. Perlas was recently Undersecretary Designate for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. He is a member of the Philippine Senate Technical Working Group on Artificial Intelligence and is helping the mayors of seven cities and towns practice participatory governance and direct democracy by empowering altogether more than 300,000 citizens to collectively embark on sustainable development. For the global impact of his work, he has been given, among others, the Outstanding Filipino Award (TOFIL), UNEP’S Global 500 Award and the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize). 

Friday, July 12, 2019

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