The “Our American Roots” series, now in its fourth year in Oak Ridge, will open with a panel discussion on “Railroads, Radio, and Artificial Intelligence” to be held at 6 p.m., Tuesday, February 10, at Pollard Auditorium, 210 Badger Ave. The panel will address the question, “What lessons can we learn from our experience with past disruptive technologies to help us prepare for the uses of AI?”

Members of the panel will be Stephen Streiffer, director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Lynne Parker, associate vice chancellor emerita at the University of Tennessee, former principal deputy director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and former founder of the AI Tennessee Initiative; William Lyons, professor emeritus at UT and associate director at the Institute of American Civics at the Howard Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at UT, and Ashley Stowe, chief research and university partnerships officer at Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

The panel moderator will be Alan Lowe, executive director of the American Museum of Science and Energy and the Atomic History Campus at K-25. Light refreshments will be offered at 5 p.m