Artificial intelligence (AI)
In the footsteps of Claude Shannon?
Encountering artificial intelligence, Round 1
AI in historical context
How significant is AI? Is it a second or third or fourth industrial revolution? Or something different? And why does that matter anyway?
Impact of AI
How will people, institutions and goverments respond to AI? How should they respond?
Regulating AI (or not)
Where is the failure? Designing & implementing an appropriate regulatory environment
How will AI impact us economically & socially? What will it mean to us? And who is us?
Understanding AI
What is AI, really? Unpacking & demythologising AI and large language models
Combining technologies
The prospective impact of robots on human work & employment
Limits of AI
The nature of consciousness and artificial general intelligence
Ethics of AI
