Media page for Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth?

Linked below are video lectures, podcasts, and interviews with Gray Cox dealing with the themes of Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? Dialogue and Collaboration in the Era of Artificial Intelligence.

• Here is a new graphic that a conflict resolution consultant, Craig Freshley and I designed, collaboratively, with a cartoonist, Steve Meyers.

The core idea here is explained further in a talk I gave at the Vassalboro Quarterly Meeting on February 4th, 2024. It includes readings from Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? which explain why, instead of the “Golden Rule”, we should govern our lives and learn to love others by following the Rainbow Rule: “Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.” https://youtu.be/t8F0q7tqg7s

• Here is a link to a computational essay I wrote at the Wolfram Summer School 2025 on “Exploring CA (Cellular Automata) tools for modelling Dialogical Reasoning along with a graphic from the essay: https://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/3497077

• A TedX talk providing a brief introduction to Dialogical Reasoning as a path to a wiser Earth: “Dialogical Reasoning as the Future of AI”, Ted Talks, TedXCOA, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fUkGfoLQ3Q

• A paper explaining why LLMs that are thought to only predice the next token can, in fact, engage in such apparently purposive planning and dialogue: “Beyond ‘Autocomplete on Steroids”: Testing a Neo-Aristotelian Theory of Some Emergent Features of Intentionality in LLMs”, in David C. Wyld et al. (Eds): CAIML, ICAIT, ITCSE, CRYPIS, NLCA – 2024 pp. 01-17, 2024. – CS & IT – CSCP 2024, https://aircconline.com/csit/papers/vol14/csit141801.pdf, DOI: 10.5121/csit.2024.141801

• An introduction to some key concepts in collaborating with AI: “Writing ‘With’ AI: Dialogue and Emergent Intentionality in Large Language Models”, Journal of Writing With and About AI, Issue One, May 2024,  https://www.flipsnack.com/99B9EC66AED/journal-of-writing-with-and-about-ai/full-view.html

• Here is a pdf of the slides for a talk on 5/13/25 at the Thorndike Library at College of the Atlantic on: “Education for Wisdom in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Problem-posing Dialogue”:

• Here is a pdf of the slideshow used in at talk on 1/22/25 at Mount Desert Regional High School for a Professional Development Workshop on: “”Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? Artificial Intelligence, Foolishness, Wisdom, Ethics, and the Future of Education”:

• Podcast from In Good Faith on BY?U Radio: “How does AI impact religion?“ In Good Faith – Season 8, Episode 183. Steven Kapp Perryspeaks with Gray Cox about the new age of AI and its influence on religious life. Artificial Intelligence has made its way into nearly every conversation over the last few months. We’re wondering, What does this mean for religious practice? Dr. Cox discusses how we train AI matters and reflects our own spiritual concerns.

 

• “A Quaker Approach to a Wiser Earth in the Era of Artificial Intelligence” — a talk by Gray Cox at the West Falmouth Friends Meeting on January 14, 2024 Artificial Intelligence is transforming our world in ever more powerful and pervasive ways. How might it help promote what, in the FCNL phrase, is “The World We Seek”? In what ways does it threaten it? How can Quakers best understand the ethical, economic, political, cultural, technological and spiritual challenges and opportunities it presents? How can we, as individuals and as communities, best speak to that of God in others in the context of the powers of reasoning and persuasion being exercised through AI? This talk presents highlights from Gray’s new book which aims to offer a systematic Quaker perspective on these issues.

• Hacia una Planeta más Inteligente — una charla en español compartida en la Facultad de Ingeniería Químca de la UADY, Mérida, Yucatan, el 7 de diciembre, 2023, por Gray Cox con link a las diapositivas. Parte II: Dialogo está disponible: aquí:  Diálogo sobre una Planeta más Inteligente. La charla está basado en su libro, Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? Dialogue and Collaboration in the Era of Artificial Intelligence.

• Author talk at Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, Maine, August 2nd, 2023 on Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? How Dialogue Can Transform Artificial Intelligence into Collaborative Wisdom: https://vimeo.com/853514850?share=copy

• An overview of key themes from the book is given in this keynote for the 12th Annual NIC.br Workshop on Survey Methodology given in Sao Paulo, Brazil on 8/29/2022: “AI and the Political Philosophy of the Future.”