Planning on being in Seattle in August for a Con taking place in the World? We have programming for you!

Science Sideshow Panelists

1:00 pm  Lunar Futures—Explore the Moon!

Chris Cokinos, award-winning author, Still As Bright
Casey Dreier, Planetary Society
Tejaswini Mishra, Stanford U., human health in space
Sarah Alahmed, Planetary Society (moderator)

2:00 pm  AI Claims Sentience! Does It Have Rights?

Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, U. Wash. AI researcher
Sentience-claiming AI, created by Ahmad
Joan Slonczewski, author of A Door into Ocean
Kate Johnston, scholar and author (moderator)

3:00 pm  Science in Fiction: Readings!

Kate Johnston: Dinosaurs in space
Joan Slonczewski: Minds in Transit, novel about
microbial brains and AI

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