Registration is for
In-Person Attendance ONLY
and will be open at a later date
All IGS Members in Good Standing Will Receive Instructions on How to Livestream the Event Online Prior to the AKML
The 73rd Annual
Alfred Korzybski
Memorial Lecture
and the Symposium on
Discourse,
Dialogue,
and Democracy
October 3rd-5th, 2025
Co-Sponsored by the
New York Society for General Semantics
the International Bateson Institute
the Media Ecology Association
the Tomkins Institute
and the 404 Festival of Art and Technology
featuring
Tristan Harris
Tristan Harris is Co-Founder of the Center for Humane Technology (CHT), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to align technology with humanity’s best interests. He regularly briefs
heads of state, technology CEOs, and US Congress members, in addition to mobilizing millions of people around the world through mainstream media. Tristan has explored the influences that hijack human attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs, from his childhood as a magician to his coursework in Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab to his leadership as a Design Ethicist at Google. Today, he studies how major technology platforms wield dangerous power over our ability to make sense of the world and leads the call for systemic change. In 2020, Tristan was featured in the two-time Emmy-winning Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma. The film unveiled how social media is dangerously reprogramming our brains and human civilization. It reached over 100 million people in 190 countries across 30 languages. His viral presentation, The AI Dilemma, with Aza Raskin, maps where we’re heading with AI and how we can respond. As a co-host of the top-rated technology podcast, Your Undivided Attention, he explores the drivers behind social media’s race for attention, its destabilization of society, and potential solutions.
The lecture, dinner, and symposium are being held at the historic Players Club in Gramercy Park, Manhattan.
Registration is free for IGS members and their guests, but all attendees must be registered in advance in order to gain admittance to the club. More information regarding the dinner and symposium schedule will be made available at a later date.
Please note that as an historic 19th century landmark, the site is not handicap accessible. Dress code is business casual and is strictly enforced, including no sneakers, shorts, ripped jeans, t-shirts).
