A former researcher at Google DeepMind, the UK AI Safety Institute’s Christopher Summerfield joins us to reveal whether we can look forward to a utopia, or are writing ourselves out of history.

Stunning advances in digital technology have given us a new wave of disarmingly human-like AI systems. The march of this new technology is set to upturn our economies, challenge our democracies, and refashion society in unpredictable ways. We can expect these AI systems to soon be making autonomous decisions on the user’s behalf, with transformative impact on everything we do. It is vital we understand how they work.

Christopher Summerfield is one of the UK’s foremost authorities on the brave new world of Artificial Intelligence. He helped design AI systems at Google DeepMind and is now both a Professor of Neuroscience at Oxford and Research Director of the UK Safety Institute. Now he joins us to answer your questions about the burgeoning new age of AI and explain what it means for you.

Can AI systems ‘think’, ‘know’ and ‘understand’? Could they manipulate or deceive you, and if so, what might they make you do? Whose interests do they ultimately represent? And when will they be able to move beyond words and take actions for themselves in the real world?

Find out from one of the most distinguished researchers operating in the field today.

Praise for Christopher Summerfield’s These Strange New Minds:

‘A brilliant guide to the most important technology of our times’ – Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI & Cofounder of DeepMind

‘By far the best guide to a newly emerging species with which we will share the planet for the foreseeable future’ – Stuart Russell, author of Human Compatible

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