The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Welcomes You!

Sirius XM Host of “Briefing with Steve Scully,” and former White House correspondent, Steve Scully, will moderate this year’s Clarke Conversation on Imagination.

How might we augment vision and beneficial collaboration between AI and other technologies and Humanity?

In his book, Profiles of the Future, visionary Arthur C. Clarke taught us the limits of the possible, while also allowing us to reimagine the impossible. He was a man of extraordinary prescience and vision who forecast that the partnering of technology with our planet’s inhabitants could either prove of great benefit or an imminent threat.

Nearly six decades ago, his HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey served as a warning, and yet pinned the humans who programmed HAL as the ultimate culprits. Mindful of this warning, and his reminder that “data isn’t information, and information isn’t vision,” how do we get people in our 21st century AI world – young and old – to think like Arthur Clarke – with vision and insights, while also serving vital pro-humanity values? Change agents, those with fresh visions, are often maligned or ignored.

How do we promote beneficial new ideas, including from the young and not yet societally recognized, as decision leaders, and make such ideas more accessible to and accepted by decision-makers and investors?We are being swept into a world where technological advances, often happening too fast to even comprehend, are raising more questions than answers.

How can we use this period of questioning to humanity’s benefit? SIRIUS XM host Steve Scully will engage the three 2024 Clarke Awardees whose visions and accomplishments advance human well-being, seeking their thoughts about where we are and where we need to go from here.

Scenes from 2023 Unleash Imagination

Past awardees, from the left: George R.R. Martin, Margaret Atwood, Martin Rees, Stephen Hawking, Cixin Liu, Jill Tarter, Irwin Jacobs, Mark Dankberg, Fred Ordway III.