The Royal Society

The anxieties and fears around AI are all too prevalent in daily life – we constantly ask ourselves when AI will come for our job, fret about the impact of AI on democracy and question our own eyes in the face of constant AI-generated content. But can you envision the future where AI works for good?

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This special event features a screening of a new Financial Times animated short film written by FT AI Editor Madhumita Murgia – demonstrating the positive applications of AI for the environment, healthcare, culture and heritage – followed by a discussion on the potential impacts of an AI designed to work for the many, not the few, featuring:

Madhumita Murgia – Artificial Intelligence Editor, The Financial Times and author of Code-Dependent: How AI is Changing Our Lives (2024) Professor Alison Noble CBE FRS – Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Oxford and Foreign Secretary and Vice-President, The Royal Society. She is an inter-disciplinary researcher distinguished for her contributions to biomedical image analysis Juliet Riddell (Chair) – Head of New Formats, The Financial Times and a BAFTA award-nominated and Webby and Rose d’Or-winning film producer

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