Culture & Education

Nicholas Christakis: [00:00:05] All right, so human beings are embedded in social networks, and these networks obey very particular mathematical, biological, and social principles. And increasingly, we are adding artificial intelligence in the form of online agents and physical robots among us who interact with us as if they were social entities. And these sorts…

Josiah Ober: [00:00:00] Welcome to Civics in the Academy. This is sponsored by the Alliance for Civics in the Academy. I’m Josiah Ober. I’m on the executive committee of the Alliance, and in my spare time, I teach at Stanford University. The Alliance was launched just over a year ago as a community of practice…