The concerns our parents had about us when we born will we be healthy, good-natured, inquisitive, successful?—seem mundane compared with the questions today's parents may have, given the unrelenting pace of technological innovation. Gene editing, cybernetics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and other advances are real, they are happening today, their implications are clear, and we need to now make crucial decisions about where we go from here. Join us for a multimedia lunch discussion to see what is in store for the future of humankind...and beyond.

Speaker:
Christopher Mason
Director, WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction; Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine