Time for a Tech Reformation? With Greg Epstein

As technology has overtaken religion as a primary influence on 21st-century life and community, have tech titans and their innovations become our new false idols?

Greg Epstein, Harvard and MIT’s influential humanist chaplain, joins us in San Francisco—the epicenter of the technological revolution— to delve into what it means to go beyond worship to critically engage with tech and its role in our lives. In his new book Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation, Epstein examines how the tech grip took hold and celebrates historical apostates, tech ethicists, skeptics, and whistleblowers who embody the tech reformation he declares is urgently needed.

As we face a future where AI may hold god-like power, there's never been a more critical time to examine our relationship with technology and collectively demand that tech serves us.

SPEAKERS

Greg M. Epstein, Humanist Chaplain at Harvard & MIT; Author, Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation

Kevin V. Nguyen, Business Reporter, San Francisco Standard

5 p.m. doors open & check-in
5:30–6:30 p.m. program
(all times Pacific Time)

Host or Publisher The Commonwealth Club