Cambridge DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning Neil Lawrence and Financial Times AI editor Madhumita Murgia investigate the profound consequences of Artificial Intelligence for humanity.
At the dawn of the age of intelligent machines, we find ourselves at a crossroads: either AI will be a tool for us, or we will become a tool of AI.
For Neil Lawrence, DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at Cambridge, Artificial Intelligence offers us a new answer to that ancient question: what does it mean to be human? As we slice away at the facets of human intelligence that can be replaced by machines, AI uncovers what is left: an indivisible core that is the essence of humanity.
For Madhumita Murgia, the first ever AI Editor of the Financial Times, AI has already begun to change what it means to be human, stripping away our collective sense of agency and free will – and threatens to cause profound harm to individuals and wider society if we do not act now.
Neil and Madhumita are joined in conversation by Robbie Stamp: both a leading figure in the international movement to revitalise democracy and a friend and close collaborator of the late Douglas Adams, whose maverick vision of our relationship to technology continues to capture the imaginations of millions of us across the globe.
Considering the deep history of technology, our fraught present and the promises and perils of our near future, don’t miss this exclusive meeting of three singular and extraordinary (human) minds.
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