# 2024 Ashok C. Sani Lecture Featuring Tristan Harris

**Date**: Tuesday, November 19, 2024
**Location**: NYU Stern, Paulson Auditorium

On November 19th at 5:00 pm EDT, the NYU Stern [Business & Society Program](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/about/departments-centers-initiatives/academic-departments/business-society-program) hosted the 2024 Ashok C. Sani Lecture titled: "The AI Dilemma: Navigating the Road Ahead," featuring tech ethicist [Tristan Harris](https://www.tristanharris.com/). Co-founder of the [Center for Humane Technology](https://www.humanetech.com/), Harris discussed AI's societal impact with NYU Stern professor [Jonathan Haidt](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jonathan-haidt).

About the Ashok C. Sani Scholar-in-Residence Lecture
Ashok C. Sani (BS ’74), for whom this lecture is named, was a distinguished graduate, successful entrepreneur, president of C.G.S. Industries Inc., loyal supporter of NYU, and the founding member of the NYU Stern Alumni Council. The Ashok Sani Scholar program shares Mr. Sani’s interest in ethics, truth, peace, compassion and the moral and social responsibilities of members of society with the NYU Stern community.

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![general image of KMC](/sites/default/files/styles/480w/public/assets/images/KMC%20Exterior%20230x260.png?itok=CIYNIm6g)## Past Sani Lectures

- [Ruchira Gupta](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2024-ashok-c-sani-distinguished-scholar-residence-lecture-featuring-ruchira-gupta)
- [Tom Szaky](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2023-ashok-c-sani-distinguished-scholar-residence-lecture-featuring-tom-szaky)
- [Rubana Huq](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2022-ashok-c-sani-distinguished-scholar-residence-lecture-featuring-rubana-huq)
- [Sallie Krawcheck](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2021-ashok-c-sani-distinguished-scholar-residence-lecture-featuring-sallie-krawcheck)
- [M. Night Shyamalan](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2019-ashok-c-sani-distinguished-scholar-residence-lecture-featuring-m-night-shyamalan)
- [Alan Murray](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2018-sani-lecture-alan-murray)
- [Larry Silverstein](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2017-sani-lecture-larry-silverstein)
- [Robert Frank](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/professor-robert-frank-delivers-2016-ashok-c-sani-distinguished-scholar-residence-lecture)
- [John Sexton](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/2015-sani-lecture-john-sexton)
- [Gordon Brown](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/sani-lecture-gordon-brown)
- [Maria Bartiromo](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/innovate-possible-2013)
- [Bill Drayton](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/experience-stern/news-events/uat_025208)