the people's reset 2026 workshop/activity
How to Critique the Hype around AI and Transhuman Tech
VN Alexander
January 31, 2026
12:45 – 1:45 PM
Manifestation Room at the Grand Cantalagua
Free
VN Alexander
January 31, 2026
12:45 – 1:45 PM
Manifestation Room at the Grand Cantalagua
Free
Will computers ever become sentient? Will Brain-Machine Interfaces enable mind reading? Can biotech researchers reprogram our genes to give us superhuman abilities? Learn how to explore these questions with philosopher of science, VN Alexander, who is a leading expert in the field of Biosemiotics, the study of biological intelligence.
When you understand how living systems learn and remember, and how different this process is from machine “intelligence,’ you will be better able to critique the narrative that Big Tech is trying to sell the public. Alarming headlines propagate fear, and fear is used to control people. We need to lead the public away from the AI fear trap.
VN Alexander
Alexander is a philosopher of science, working in the field of Biosemiotics. Her critiques of AI and Transhumanism can be found on her substack The Posthumous Style.
She is author of The Biologist’s Mistress: Rethinking Self-Organization in Art, Literature and Nature. She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center alum, former Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities, and was a 2020 Fulbright Scholar at the Digital Humanities Lab at ITMO University in St Petersburg, Russia. She is a member of the Third Way of Evolution group and her work in evolutionary theory appears in Fine Lines: Nabokov’s Scientific Art, published by Yale University Press, which was one of Nature’s top 20 books of 2017.
Dr Alexander currently teaches a webinar at IPAK-EDU.org called “We Are Not Machines.” She is also a literary fiction novelist writing political satire.