About The LECTURE

Does artificial intelligence (AI) fill you with excitement, curiosity, or just a touch of unease?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) attracts ever more media excitement and corporate investment. Even, during 2024, some Nobel Prizes. It is rapidly transforming the way we live in both positive and negative ways. It can enhance science and technology and help us transition to a low-carbon, healthy and prosperous future. Or with the advent of large language models and image generators it is also assaulting the traditional boundaries of trust and of democracy. It is built upon ballooning energy consumption and inequality of access to its benefits. Some of its leading experts argue that it even poses an existential risk to humanity from loss of control of future AI systems; others argue that this is fantasy and a diversion from the real social harms that we see today.

Like any other rapidly growing technology, AI needs an informed public debate on both the advantages and the risks it poses now and in the future. Join Professor Bill Oxbury from Lancaster University, a former leader in AI research and implementation for the UK government, as he shares his expertise and sparks a discussion about the future of AI.

 About The SPEAKER

Professor Bill Oxbury is Professor in Practice for Data and Cyber Research at Lancaster University. Previously he worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a Chief Data Scientist and at the Durham University as a Lecturer in Mathematics.

Location

The Storey
Meeting House Lane, Lancaster, LA1 1TH

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