Thu, Dec 03
|Sequoya Library Meeting Room
District 11 Book Club: The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Join a moderated discussion about AI
Time & Location
Dec 03, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Sequoya Library Meeting Room, 4340 Tokay Blvd, Madison, WI 53711, USA
About the event
The next District 11 Book Club is on Thursday, December 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Sequoya Library to discuss AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor.
Challenging the assumptions driving today’s artificial intelligence boom, the authors argue that much of what we are told about AI’s predictive power, objectivity, and inevitability is built on shaky foundations. Join us for a timely discussion about technology, trust, and whether today’s AI boom is built on genuine breakthroughs or a modern-day snake oil sales pitch.
Our moderator for this free book club event will be Midvale Heights resident and MHCA board member Clinton Castro, who is an Assistant Professor in
the Information School and Affiliate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Castro’s research focuses on information ethics, fair machine learning, and…