In the song “Immigrants (We Get the Job Done)” from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton Mixtape, the settlement of the Americas is framed through liberal understandings of arrival that transform chattel slavery and forced labor into the exceptional narratives of pulling oneself up from hard labor to freedom. It reflects current political mobilizations against xenophobia and immigration bans that insist that we are all immigrants to the Americas. And it erases completely the ongoing colonization of Indigenous peoples and lands.

As we think through new technologies, and those currently in development, questions of "smart" devices, and what we mean through the term artificial intelligence come to mind. This discussion looks at issues of intelligence and consciousness as these technologies integrate themselves more and more into our everyday lives.   A panel discussion with Volkan Isler (Computer Science), Tom Wolfe (History) and Michael Maratsos (Child Psychology) This discussion is co-sponsored by the departments of Computer Science, History, Child Psychology, Neuroscience, and Research Computing.