HAI Seminar with Adam Becker & Jon Evans: “More Everything Forever” and “Exadelic”

In this HAI seminar, HAI Policy Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn moderates a conversation about the potential future(s) of AI and humanity with Adam Becker, author of More Everything Forever, and Jon Evans, author of Exadelic and the Gradient Ascendant newsletter. They explore questions such as who are the individuals and communities predicting AI doom, AI boom, or AI as normal technology? What motivates them, and what should we make of their predictions? Amidst competing narratives of AI utopia and dystopia, what lessons can we learn from speculative fiction? And how can the rest of us take action to ensure a human-centered future that serves all of us and our planet? This event was recorded on January 21, 2026 at Stanford University. 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:36 Lecture 00:56:56 Q&A