How AI, Genetics, and Biotechnology Will Transform our World
Futurist Jamie Metzl is one of the world’s leading technology and healthcare futurists and author of five books, including the international bestseller, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity.  Tomorrow is here. Jamie says it doesn’t have to be scary. The rapid growth of new AI systems like ChatGPT have made most people realize significant change is on the horizon. Just like the industrial and computer revolutions, the AI revolution will transform most every aspect of our personal and professional lives. Along with our new capabilities in genetics and biotechnology, it will change how we live and work, our economies, our healthcare, the foods we eat, and our interactions with the world around us. In this far-reaching and highly practical talk, leading futurist Jamie Metzl explores the big picture implications of this transformative moment in human history and what it means for all of us.

About Jamie
Jamie Metzl is one of the world’s leading technology and healthcare futurists and author of five books, including the international bestseller, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, which has been translated into 12 languages. In 2019, he was appointed to the World Health Organization expert advisory committee on human genome editing. Jamie is a faculty member of Singularity University and NextMed Health, a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council, and Founder and Chair of the global social movement, OneShared.World.

Called “the original COVID-19 whistleblower,” his pioneering role advocating for a full investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic has been featured in 60 Minutes, the New York Times, and most major media across the globe, and he was the lead witness in the first congressional hearings on this topic.  Jamie previously served in the U.S. National Security Council, State Department, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee and with the United Nations in Cambodia. He appears regularly on national and international media and his syndicated columns and other writing in science, technology, and global affairs are featured in publications around the world. He is a former partner in a global private equity firm and serves on advisory boards for multiple biotechnology and other companies.

His next book, Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions Will Transform Our Lives, Work, and World, will be published by Hachette in June 2024.  Jamie holds a Ph.D. from Oxford, a law degree from Harvard, and an undergraduate degree from Brown and is an avid ironman triathlete and ultramarathon runner.

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