{"id":182736,"date":"2026-01-29T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/uw-eau-claire-thursdays-at-the-u-continues-with-discussion-of-artificial-intelligence-and-humanity\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:45:11","slug":"uw-eau-claire-thursdays-at-the-u-continues-with-discussion-of-artificial-intelligence-and-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/29\/uw-eau-claire-thursdays-at-the-u-continues-with-discussion-of-artificial-intelligence-and-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"UW-Eau Claire: Thursdays at the U continues with discussion of artificial intelligence and humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2026\/uw-eau-claire-thursdays-at-the-u-continues-with-discussion-of-artificial-intelligence-and-humanity\/\">UW-Eau Claire: Thursdays at the U continues with discussion of artificial intelligence and humanity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2026\/uw-eau-claire-thursdays-at-the-u-continues-with-discussion-of-artificial-intelligence-and-humanity\/\">https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2026\/uw-eau-claire-thursdays-at-the-u-continues-with-discussion-of-artificial-intelligence-and-humanity\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-29 12:39:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wispolitics.com\">www.wispolitics.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Matthew Meyer, a philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, will present &#8220;AI and Our Humanity&#8221; on February 5 as part of the Thursdays at the U series.<\/li>\n<li>The event will occur from 12:30-1:30 p.m. in Blue Hills Lecture Hall at Ritzinger Hall and will be livestreamed.<\/li>\n<li>Meyer will explore the dual-edged nature of artificial intelligence, its potential to solve significant human problems, and its threat of leading to human extinction.<\/li>\n<li>He will also question the potential loss of meaning and purpose even in a successfully managed AI world.<\/li>\n<li>Meyer\u2019s current philosophical interests include existentialism, happiness studies, environmental ethics, pop culture, and recently the ethics of AI.<\/li>\n<li>Thursdays at the U series is free and open to the public with no need for reservations or permits.<\/li>\n<li>The previous series presentation was livestreamed and the talks are usually archived for future access.<\/li>\n<li>Contact Laura Holden for more information at 715-788-6207 or holdenlk@uwec.edu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW-Eau Claire: Thursdays at the U continues with discussion of artificial intelligence and humanity https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2026\/uw-eau-claire-thursdays-at-the-u-continues-with-discussion-of-artificial-intelligence-and-humanity\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/publicwebuploads.uwec.edu\/images\/22939-Matthew-Meyer-three-four-portrait.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-182736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182738,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182736\/revisions\/182738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}