AI & Human Futures

Is AI a new form of colonialism. Or is it a gift to humanity?

Google DeepMind's AI tool AlphaFold solved a five-decade scientific mystery – and won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

But AI also risks becoming an agent of chaos. Deepening inequalities. Worsening authoritarianism. It is already disrupting jobs, unearthing new privacy concerns, exacerbating resource use.

How do we ensure AI is not weaponised, but remains a force of progress, prosperity, peace?

Watch Paolo Benanti, engineer & ethicist, footballer & friar, and AI advisor to Rome, Pope, and the UN, and Pushmeet Kohli, VP, Google DeepMind and scientist at AlphaFold, debate the power, promise, and peril of AI. The psyche of Silicon Valley. An ethical approach to technology and AI. And how religion could pave the way.

In conversation with Shoma Chaudhury, Founder of Lucid Lines & Founder-Director, SYNAPSE.

 

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