Uncovering the Future: What Archaeology and Anthropology Can Teach Us About AI, Technology, and Society

Technology does not exist in a vacuum. What matters is the institutions, rules, relationships, and power structures it enters.

Sara Polak will show how archaeology and anthropology can be used as methods for understanding technological change: why some societies are able to absorb new technologies while others are destabilized by them, how trust is built, how knowledge is passed on, and what makes institutions resilient.

AI will serve as a contemporary stress test for these principles - and as an opportunity to think not only about better technologies, but also about better-functioning societies.