Book Talk: Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI

Author of Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI (NYU Press, March 2026) Sarah Murray reveals an alternative feminist pathway that seeded hospitable ideas about AI by showing how smartness was a techno-cultural ideal long before the digital age. Professor Murray will be in conversation with Professor Rahul Mukherjee (Dick Wolf Associate Professor of TV and New Media, University of Pennsylvania).