events we have coming up, tomorrow night ross park will read from his new novel, who are you, thomas bledsoe. stephen kinzer will present a history of the cia. we also have some other events next weekend tickets are available for monday's conversation and another talk on wednesday. tonight we welcome gary marcus, author of "rebooting ai: building artificial intelligence we can trust" which argues a computer being a human in jeopardy does not signal we are on the doorstep of solely autonomous cars or super intelligent machines. taking inspiration from the human mind, the book explains if we need to advance artificial intelligence to the next level, suggests that if we are wise along the way we will not need to worry about a future of machine overlords. finally a book that tells us what ai is, what it is not and what a i could become if only we are ambitious and creative enough. a deeply informed account. gary marcus is founder and ceo of robert robots.a ing metric intelligence and published in journals including science and nature, the youngest professor emeritus at nyu. along with ernest dav