The History of Intelligence with Max Bennett.  Max is the author of The Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains, and is the cofounder & CEO of Alby, an AI company based in NYC. This salon features music by Queen Esther & Friends and is supported by a grant Posthoc received from Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF).  Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Diverse Intelligence (DI) initiative seeks to break down disciplinary boundaries and build a new scientific community. DI is a multiyear, global effort to understand a world alive with brilliance in many forms. Its mission is to promote open-minded, forward-looking inquiry in animal, human, and machine intelligences. TWCF collaborates with leading experts and emerging scholars from around the globe, developing high-caliber projects that advance our comprehension of the constellation of intelligences.