Does Artificial Intelligence pose an existential threat?
Exploring its impact on our futures
Thursday 23rd January 2024, 6.30 - 8pm
About The LECTURE
Does artificial intelligence (AI) fill you with excitement, curiosity, or just a touch of unease?As it attracts ever more media excitement, corporate investment, and even some Nobel Prizes, it is rapidly transforming the way we live in both positive and negative ways. It is enhancing science and technology and helping us transition to a low-carbon, healthy and prosperous future. However, it is also challenging our trust and democracy, it is built upon ballooning energy consumption and seeing inequality of access to its benefits.
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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Does Artificial Intelligence pose an existential threat?
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