AI: Terminal Risk or Industrial Revolution?

Some very well qualified people believe that artificial intelligence poses a potential extinction risk for humanity. Others, equally well qualified, see the possibility of a vast and beneficial increase in human knowledge and its deployment in saving lives, educating our children and improving our society. We aim to raise and debate the critical issues in an agenda driven by the questions that we as villagers ask ourselves.

Chairman: Tom Dent

Contributors:

Dr Timo Hannay. Timo is by background a neuroscientist with a doctorate from Oxford, but he has become a foremost expert on data science and AI in education. he worked for Nature and was the founder of Digital Science, the international investment company in advanced digital information in science. As well as running his present company, SchoolDash, he is a director of SAGE and a contributor to Nature and The Economist.

David Warlock has lived in Speen for over 20 years. He is a publishing and information technology consultant who has been writing and talking about AI for twenty years, since it was known as expert systems and neural networks. He tracks key developments in fields like AI through his video blog FutureScapes.