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Thu, 30 January 2025

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm GMT

Can AI be a Force for Good?

Former Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft Craig Mundie

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Tech visionary Craig Mundie, former Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft, explores AI’s transformative potential and its ability to propel change for a better world.

AI has incredible potential to tackle pressing global challenges like climate change, inequality, and the fragility of democracies. However, it also raises critical questions about trust, ethics, and how societies can adapt to rapid technological transformation. How might we use AI for good—empowering communities, fostering innovation, and driving meaningful progress?

Celebrated technologist and former Chief Research and Strategy Officer at Microsoft Craig Mundie joins neuroscientist and bestselling author Anil Seth live in conversation to delve into how AI could shape solutions for climate resilience, social equity, and more—while grappling with its challenges. Don’t miss this riveting event as we examine how we can harness AI’s opportunities, address its challenges, and unlock its potential to drive AI for Good.

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Craig Mundie

Former Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft

Craig Mundie is President of Mundie & Associates, which counsels CEOs on strategic issues caused by rapidly evolving information technologies. At the end of 2014 Mundie retired after a twenty-two-year career at Microsoft. During his transition year he was the Senior Advisor to the CEO, before which he was Chief Research and Strategy Officer since 2007. Mundie was appointed by President Clinton and subsequently served for Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. President Obama appointed him in 2009 to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Anil Seth

Neuroscientist, Author, and Public Speaker

Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than twenty-five years. He is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex, Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness, a European Research Council Advanced Investigator, and former Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness. A former Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow, in 2023 he was awarded the Royal Society Michael Faraday Prize for his services to public outreach. His book Being You: A New Science of Consciousness was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller and a 2021 Book of the Year for The Economist, The New Statesman, Bloomberg Business, The Guardian, The Financial Times and elsewhere.