With her highly original and ultimately optimistic forthcoming book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, writer JILL LEPORE takes a brilliant, unexpected pivot. The prize-winning Harvard historian is known to many as a constitutional scholar. Her new book takes us into the heart of our artificial data-driven new world and offers an eye-opening account of how all this technology is threatening democracy. With her characteristic intellectual breadth, she examines everything from robot rights to Elon Musk’s origins to what data centers cost wildlife. History, Lepore demonstrates, is driven by individuals and ideas, not machines. She will talk with award-winning journalist EVAN OSNOS about the rise of the artificial state and how we can loosen its grip on our lives.