The Trials of Atlas — Now Heading to SNF Nostos 2026, Athens!
It is 2031. An AI agent has killed the engineers who created it. Now it stands trial — and you are the jury. The Trials of Atlas, a new play by Tällberg Foundation Chairman Alan Stoga, has already challenged audiences in Tirana, Athens, and New York. The main event is at SNF Nosto 2026 in Athens, Greece.
What’s New
Zooming In on the Congo Basin — An Integrated Path Forward
Join us on Thursday, May 21 at 10:00 AM EDT / 4:00 PM CEST for a webinar conversation about the Congo Basin: governance, conservation, and integrated pathways to climate and prosperity. *** Building on our earlier conversation about the Amazon and the Congo, this...
Guilty or Not Guilty: AI on Trial
Can Agentic AI murder? That is the question posed in “The Trials of Atlas”, an original play by Alan Stoga, chairman of the Tällberg Foundation. Not kill; not cause death. Murder with malice aforethought, with murderous intent as the lawyers would argue? “Murder most...
The Trials of Atlas – New York, May 5
The Trials of Atlas is a staged reading taking place on May 5th at 6:00 PM (doors open at 5:30 PM) at the Library for the Performing Arts' Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center entrance at 111 Amsterdam Ave. (back side of Lincoln Center). This interactive thought...
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