NOW STREAMING ON DEMAND--Laura Condon and HAS Faculty and Students to Speak at Evening Lecture Series: Earth's Story: The Importance of Human Understanding in the Age of AI

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HAS Professor Laura Condon and other HAS faculty and doctoral student researchers will present a talk and panel discussion, Earth's Story: The Importance of Human Understanding in the Age of AI, at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, February 25, 2026, Centennial Hall. This will be the first trial of a multi-speaker talk in the College of Science Lecture series!

The HAS panel will include Laura Condon and other members of the Hydrologic Reasoning Intentional Research Community: 

• Ty Ferre'
• Hoshin Gupta
• Bo Guo
• Andrew Bennett
• Ben West
• Aldo Tapia Araya
• Jiawen Du
• Jawad Muhammed
• Wenqian Zhang   

Human curiosity, for millennia, has driven us to explore the mysteries of our blue planet and its place in the cosmos. The story of the Earth, as we tell it, is really a synthesis of Earth science. Today, we have access to more data and computation than at any other point in human history. Artificial intelligence shows great promise for simulating Earth systems and uncovering new patterns. Will this render human investigation obsolete?

In this talk, Dr. Laura Condon will explain how these advances are transforming our ability to study the planet, while also highlighting why human insight remains essential. Now, more than ever, we need human reason and ingenuity to ask the right questions and build new understanding that can drive us forward. 

All lectures are free and open to the public. 

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