The Women’s University Club of Seattle Foundation brings Dr. Margaret O’Mara to the stage to share cutting edge information about artificial intelligence. With AI technology concentrated in a few large corporations, we see wealth and power consolidated with the capacity to control and influence the political landscape. Dr. O’Mara will provide historical context and share what history tells us about what might lie ahead for AI, considering both opportunities and challenges for democratic processes and social institutions.

“We are so excited to bring such a high caliber speaker when so much information and misinformation abound about AI and its use,” says Laurie Hornor , executive director of the Women’s University Club of Seattle Foundation “We’re pleased to honor our friend and colleague, Mary Jacobs, who inspired the gift that allows us to share this event with the community.”

This event is held on Wednesday, October 29th, at the Women’s University Club from 4:00-6:30pm. Purchase tickets for $25 through Eventbrite that includes both the program and a reception immediately following the program with light bites and beverages.

For more information, please visit us online at https://www.womensuniversityclub.com/foundation.

About Dr. Margaret O’Mara

Dr. O’Mara is Professor and the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Chair of American History and at the University of Washington. She is recognized as one of the nation’s leading scholars on Silicon Valley. Dr. O'Mara is the author of two acclaimed books on the history of the modern technology industry: The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America (Penguin Press, 2019) and Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search For The Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, 2005). She also is a historian of the American presidency and author of Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections that Shaped the Twentieth Century (Penn Press, 2015). She is a coauthor of the widely used United States history textbook, The American Pageant (Cengage) and is an editor of the Politics and Society in Modern America series at Princeton University Press. Her byline has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, MIT Technology Review, Foreign Affairs, and other outlets. She is an active public speaker, appears regularly in national and international broadcast media, and has contributed her expertise to the development of Mattel’s American Girl dolls.

About Mary Jacobs

The program is made possible through a generous donation in honor of Mary Jacobs, a beloved member of the Women’s University Club and champion of science and technology.

About the Women’s University Club of Seattle Foundation

The Women’s University Club of Seattle Foundation, a public charitable trust established in 2005, supports scholarship, historic preservation, and community education and outreach.