"Intelligence Squared" Artificial Intelligence Debate

I attended the Intelligence Squared artificial intelligence debate at the 92nd St. Y's Seven Day of Genius Festival (March 9th) and felt like I had a seat at the edge of the world. For better or worse, this is arguably the central debate of the 21st century. The motion was "Don't Trust The Promise of AI?" Jaron Lanier and Andrew Keen took the position we shouldn't trust AI, while Martine Rothblatt and James Hughes argued we should. There were transhumanists on both sides of the debate, which made things interesting. For those unfamiliar, "transhumanism is an international and intellectual movement aiming to transform the human condition by developing and creating widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities."