Yes, even autonomous driving can inspire poetry! Last week I wrote poetry with Living Poetry members Bartholomew Barker and Anna Weaver at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh. We wrote poems during a presentation on driverless cars by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics at Duke University in the Philosophy Department, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Duke Institute for Brain Science, and the Law School; Vincent Conitzer, the Kimberly J. Jenkins University Professor of New Technologies and Professor of Computer Science, Professor of Economics, and Professor of Philosophy at Duke University; and Jana Schaich Borg, Faculty Director of the Duke Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science, and Assistant Research Professor at the Duke Social Science Research Institute, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Hear what we came up with in this video, starting at the 01:06:45 mark.
Write Naked 
Whoo science! Whoo Hoooo poetry!
I’m impressed with your on-the-spot poetry writing, and amazed at your ability to get up and read it on stage while the words are still fresh. Badass poets taking on tech and the Raleigh night like a gaggle of raucous Rimbauds. Let those birds fly with both hands, you guys!
Thanks! We should have had “Free Bird” cued up to start after Anna’s poem. 🙂 Come out to a future poetry science cafe–there are opportunities for more poets to read.