Free Event - The Existential Risks of Artificial Intelligence

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The rapid development of artificial intelligence promises great benefits, but it also raises concerns about its long-term safety and security risks. What will happen when machines get smarter than humans? Machines already outperform humans on several narrowly defined tasks, but the prospect of general machine intelligence would introduce novel challenges. Might AI pose an existential threat to humanity? How can we ensure AI to be developed in a safe and beneficial direction? Let's hear what the leading experts in the field have to say about this issue.

About The Speakers

Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He founded the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with Prof. Huw Price and Sir Martin Rees. He is also a co-founder of the Future of Life Institute and supports other existential risk research organizations. He is also an active angel investor and has served on the Estonian President’s Academic Advisory Board.

Dr Daniel Glaser, a neuroscientist by training, is a high profile science communicator. He is currently the director of the Science Gallery at King’s College London, which connects art, science and health with the aim to drive innovation in London. He has presented and contributed to numerous BBC television and radio programmes, and was the first scientist to serve as a judge for the Man Booker Prize. He was in the first cohort to receive a Cultural Leadership Award from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA). He was also the Head of Engaging Science at Wellcome Trust.

Dr Kanta Dihal is Research Project Coordinator at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. In her research she explores the public understanding of AI as constructed by fictional and nonfictional narratives. Kanta’s work intersects the fields of science communication, literature and science, and science fiction. She previously completed two undergraduate degrees and a research master’s at Leiden University, and recently finished her DPhil at the University of Oxford.

The event will be chaired by Dr Susanne Burri, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science.