Artificial intelligence is everywhere. Inspiring advances in AI are assisting scientific research, detecting fraud, blocking spam, shaping social media feeds, protecting against ransomware attacks, and opening the way to self-driving cars.

But what is AI? Can machines really “learn” and be “intelligent”? What can we expect from an AI-enabled future? And how should we evaluate the fears, often dramatized in sci-fi, that AI might surpass human intelligence and become a threat?

Join us for a conversation with Chad Mills, Ph.D., an expert on AI, machine learning engineering, and computational linguistics. Before joining the AI startup Grammarly, Dr. Mills  led machine-learning and data science teams at Facebook, Microsoft and other companies. We’ll discuss—in layman’s terms—how AI works; emerging applications of AI and its current limitations; and Dr. Mills’s work, education (including his studies at the Objectivist Academic Center), and the impact of Ayn Rand’s ideas on his life.