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Genesis: artificial intelligence, hope, and the human spirit

Hosted by the Data Science Institute

In-person and online public event (Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building)

Speakers

Craig Mundie

Craig Mundie

Mairéad Pratschke

Mairéad Pratschke

Chair

Professor Martin Anthony

Professor Martin Anthony

As AI absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, it will help us to address enormous crises, from climate change to geopolitical conflicts to income inequality. But it will also pose challenges on a scale and of an intensity that we have never seen before.

This new book outlines a strategy for navigating the age of AI, charting a course between blind faith and unjustified fear. It is the final book of the late elder statesman Henry Kissinger written in collaboration with technologists Eric Schmidt and Craig Mundie. Co-author Craig Mundie will touch on how the book attempts to answer some of the biggest questions of our generation: How will AI alter our perception of reality? How will humanity's role in the discovery of new knowledge evolve in the age of AI? What new forms of control will be required to address AI's autonomous capabilities? Could AI spur a new phase in human evolution?

Meet our speakers and chair

Craig Mundie, President of Mundie & Associates, joined Microsoft in 1992 and retired in 2014 as chief research and strategy officer. He advises Microsoft on quantum computing and cybersecurity, is a director of the Institute for Systems Biology, advisor to the Cleveland Clinic, and an investor in early-stage AI, biotech, fusion energy, and materials science companies. He served Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama on multiple advisory councils.

Mairéad Pratschke has worked at the intersection of digital technology and education for 25 years, as a researcher, designer, consultant, author and speaker. She is Professor and Chair in Digital Education in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester; Visiting Professor at LSE’s Data Science Institute; Research Fellow and Advisory Board member at the USA’s National AI Institute for Adult Education and Online Learning ; and author of Generative AI and Education. 

Martin Anthony is Interim Director of the Data Science Institute and a Professor of Mathematics at LSE. His research interests lie primarily in the mathematical theory underpinning machine learning, data science, and Boolean and pseudo-Boolean functions. Working at LSE since 1990, Martin has been an Academic Governor, the Vice-Chair Academic Board and Head of Department for Mathematics (twice).

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