Humanity’s Last Stand:The Challenge of

Artificial Intelligence, A Spiritual-Scientific Perspective

A presentation by renowned author

Nicanor Perlas
Followed by
A panel and conversation with Nicanor Perlas, Gary Lamb,
Sebastian Heycke, Gopi Krishna Vijaya, and Snetu Karania

January 6, Sunday, 1pm-4:30pm,

San Francisco Waldorf High School, 470 West Portal,
San Francisco, CA 94127
This workshop is titled after Nicanor
Perlas’s new book, published by Donations are requested to support this important work
Temple Lodge Press in 2018.
Note: the Santa Cruz Anthroposphy Branch is also sponsoring a workshop. Info at: www.anthroposophysantacruz.com
January 5, Saturday, 8:45am-3:30 pm, Paloma Hall, Camphill 4096 Fairway Drive, Soquel, CA

PRESENTERS

NICANOR PERLAS is an adviser, global activist, writer and speaker on artificial intelligence,
globalization and spiritualized science. He has advised UN agencies, the Office of the President and
Congress as well as cities and towns undertaking large-scale social threefolding projects. Perlas is a
member of the Senate Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. For the global impact of his work, he has
received the Right Livelihood Award (Alternative Nobel Prize), the Outstanding Filipino Award and
UNEP’S Global 500 Award. He is the author of Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power and
Threefolding.

GARY LAMB Gary Lamb is a Director of the Hawthorne Valley Center for Social Research and
the Project Coordinator of its Ethical Technology Initiative. He is currently working on
compiling a compendium of Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual perspectives on technology and human
evolution. Additionally, he is exploring a private certification system to support ethically
motivated technology companies and a Precautionary Principle specifically for the technology
industry that can be incorporated in public policy.

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SEBASTIAN HEYCKE studied interaction design in Berlin, Germany. Ever since arriving in Silicon Valley
10 years ago, he has been designing and researching in the technology industry, developing mobile
products for companies such as Yahoo!, Groupon and recently Facebook. It has increasingly become
important to him to understand the influence of technology on our lives and what it means to accept
the responsibility to shape technology in a way that honors the full human being.

GOPI KRISHMA VIJAYA is from Bangalore, India. He has completed his undergraduate
physics training from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India), and his PhD in Physics
(Solar Energy) from the University of Houston (USA) in 2014. He is currently engaged in the
study of the Reciprocal System of Physics – a way to inculcate Goethean thought into modern
physics – in Salt Lake City, USA.

SNETU KARANIA currently works as an Environment, Health, and Safety Product Supervisor
at Locus Technologies, prior to which she worked in an Environmental Consulting firm in the
Air Sciences division. She completed her graduate degrees in Environmental Engineering as
well as Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology from Stanford University. She also volunteers for an
Education related non-profit and is currently on their National Board of Directors.