A Winter Night in an AI Summer

On a slightly rainy winter night in 2023 in a small dutch city, I went for a post- “AI & Philosophy Workshop” dinner at an Eritrean restaurant with a group of philosophers and scientists. We sat around the table to share food, thoughts, and some “food for thought”! Only two of the attendees, including me, were engineers from the industry and NOT from Europe/US or whatever the “Western World”…