Close Modal Public Event What Does AI See When It Looks At the Stars? An Evening Hosted by Paul Sutter Thursday, August 20 | 7:00 p.m. The people who are supposed to know what comes next don’t—including scientists. Join Paul Sutter for an evening at the edge of human knowledge. Member Ticket Presale: Starting June 4thGeneral Public Ticket Launch: June 11thYou already know something is shifting. At work, in your field, knowledge itself seems to be changing hands. Artificial intelligence is rewriting everything. The people who are supposed to know what comes next don't.Scientists are no different. Right now, astronomers and cosmologists are wrestling with questions that keep them up at night. Can AI actually discover something new...or is it just finding patterns we put there? Will the scientists of tomorrow look anything like the scientists of today? What does it mean to do science when the machine is doing more of the work? The universe, after all, is still out there: indifferent, vast, and stranger than anything we've built to study it.They have thoughts. They have arguments. They don't have answers.Cosmologist and science communicator Paul Sutter brings guests to the stage for an unscripted conversation at the edge of what anyone knows. No polished talking points. No consensus. Just scientists who are genuinely uncertain, thinking out loud, and making room for your questions too.If you've been sitting with this stuff, wondering what it means, not sure who to ask — this is your evening. Register for the Event Date and Time Thursday, August 20 | 7:00 p.m. Audience Adults 18+ Location Blue Wing View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English Register for the Event Date and Time Thursday, August 20 | 7:00 p.m. Audience Adults 18+ Location Blue Wing View Map Price Free with Pre-Registration Language English Member Ticket Presale: Starting June 4thGeneral Public Ticket Launch: June 11thYou already know something is shifting. At work, in your field, knowledge itself seems to be changing hands. Artificial intelligence is rewriting everything. The people who are supposed to know what comes next don't.Scientists are no different. Right now, astronomers and cosmologists are wrestling with questions that keep them up at night. Can AI actually discover something new...or is it just finding patterns we put there? Will the scientists of tomorrow look anything like the scientists of today? What does it mean to do science when the machine is doing more of the work? The universe, after all, is still out there: indifferent, vast, and stranger than anything we've built to study it.They have thoughts. They have arguments. They don't have answers.Cosmologist and science communicator Paul Sutter brings guests to the stage for an unscripted conversation at the edge of what anyone knows. No polished talking points. No consensus. Just scientists who are genuinely uncertain, thinking out loud, and making room for your questions too.If you've been sitting with this stuff, wondering what it means, not sure who to ask — this is your evening. Featuring Paul M. Sutter Theoretical Cosmologist and Science Communicator Paul Sutter is a cosmologist at Johns Hopkins University, award-winning science communicator, NASA advisor, US Cultural Ambassador, and a globally recognized leader in the intersection of art and science. He has authored three critically acclaimed books and hosts a variety of TV shows, including How the Universe Works on Science Channel, Space Out on Discovery, Edge of Knowledge on Ars Technica, and numerous appearances on other outlets. Lately he's been asking a different question: what happens to science when AI enters the room? He's been working on it quietly, building tools, talking to researchers, wrestling with implications that don't have clean answers yet. This panel is part of that conversation — brought into the open for the first time.
