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Making Generative AI Work Well: Tackling Effectiveness, Safety, and Integrity

DSI Squared Symposium

20 May | Imperial College London | 12.00pm to 8.30pm
21 May | London School of Economics | 1.30pm to 8.00pm

 

As generative AI smashed records for speed of individual adoption, organisations are now tackling challenges of making AI work well — well enough to support not just individual adoption, but institutionalisation. Though still early days, users, organisations, and policy makers have come to appreciate challenges of hallucination, control, and transparency of data and use. In response to these challenges, scientists, entrepreneurs, users, and governments are tackling issues of effectiveness, safety, and integrity.

Through a programme of talks and panels on the key challenges, our 2024 symposium will take up the theme of Making Generative AI Work Well.

To watch recordings of the symposium sessions visit the playlist on our YouTube channel.

EVENT SCHEDULE:

Monday 20 May | Imperial College London

Find more information about Day 1 on DSI Imperial's website

Register for tickets for Day 1

  • 12.00pm to 1.00pm | Registration and networking
  • 1.00pm to 1.15pm | Welcome and Introduction
  • 1.15pm to 2.15pm | SESSION 1 | The State of AI
  • 2.15pm to 3.15pm | SESSION 2 | Accountability and transparency
  • 3.15pm to 3.45pm | Conversation break
  • 3.45pm to 4.45pm | SESSION 3 | Practical Assurance – developing safe and responsible AI
  • 4.45pm to 5.00pm | Short break
  • 5.00pm to 6.00pm | SESSION 4 | Panel of speakers, with audience Q&A
  • 6.00 pm - 6.30 pm | Conversation break
  • 6.30 pm - 7.45 pm | KEYNOTE ADDRESS | A debate on AI safety
  • 7.45pm to 8.30pm | Drinks reception

Tuesday 21 May | London School of Economics

Register for tickets for Day 2

  • 1.30pm to 2.00pm | Arrival and registration (tea and coffee served)
  • 2.00pm to 2.05pm | Welcome and Introduction | Professor Ken Benoit, Director, Data Science Institute, LSE
  • 2.05pm to 2.50pm | PANEL 1 | Generative AI in health and healthcare, help or hindrance?
  • 2.50pm to 3.10pm | Break (tea and coffee served)
  • 3.10pm to 3.55pm | PANEL 2 | AI and the transition to net-zero
  • 3.55pm to 4.15pm | Break (tea and coffee served)
  • 4.15 pm to 5.00pm | PANEL 3 | The role of AI in education
  • 5.00pm to 6.00pm | Break
  • 6.00pm to 7.00pm | FIRESIDE CHAT | AI for Science is at the Heart of Progress
  • 7.00pm to 8.00pm | Drinks reception

DAY 2 | LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS | PANEL DETAILS:

PANEL 1 | Generative AI in health and healthcare, help or hindrance?

Date and time: 21 May 2024, 2.00pm to 2.50pm (including welcome address from Ken Benoit, Director, Data Science Institute, LSE)
Location: SZLT, Cheng Kin Ku Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields  

Speakers:  
Anna Dijkstra, Director of Innovation for Healthcare and life sciences, Microsoft 
Pritesh Mistry, Fellow, policy team, The Kings Fund
Anna Studman, Senior Researcher, Ada Lovelace Institute

Chair: Miqdad Asaria, Assistant Professor, Department of Health Policy, LSE  

Find out more information about this panel
Watch a recording of the discussion

PANEL 2 | AI and the transition to net-zero

Date and time: 21 May 2024, 3.10pm to 3.55pm
Location:
 SZLT, Cheng Kin Ku Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields 

Speakers:  
Daniel Erasmus, Creator of ClimateGPT
Sam Young, Practice Manager for Data Science and AI, Energy Systems Catapult
Susanne Knorr, Head of Place Intelligence, Connected Kerb

Chair: Marion Dumas, Assistant Professorial Research Fellow, Grantham Institute, LSE

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PANEL 3 | The role of AI in education

Date and time: 21 May 2024, 4.15pm to 5.00pm
Location: SZLT, Cheng Kin Ku Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields 

Speakers:  
Sue Attewell, Head of AI and co-design, JISC
Steven Watson, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge 
Mairéad Pratschke, Professor and Chair in Digital Education, University of Manchester

Chair: Dr Jonathan Cardoso-Silva, Assistant Professor (Education), Data Science Institute, LSE 

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FIRESIDE CHAT

Date and time: 21 May 2024, 6.00pm to 7.00pm
Location: Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields

Nicklas Lundblad, Director of Public Policy, Google DeepMind
in conversation wtih
Ken Benoit, Director, Data Science Institute, LSE

Find out more information about the fireside chat
Watch a recording of the fireside chat

 

ABOUT DSI SQUARED | Imperial College London x London School of Economics:

DSI Squared is a collaborative initiative joining the Data Science Institutes from both Imperial College London and the London School of Economics (LSE). When it comes to data science research and its impact, the LSE’s strengths in the social sciences naturally complements Imperial’s strengths in science, technology, and medicine. By working together, the team hopes this initiative will enhance their joint influence on on policy in wide scope domains – areas where alternative facts compete with scientific findings for influence in the policy making process.