"The AI future sucks"

Find free to attend lectures from leading universities and institutions around London

Tuesday

Dec 3

13:00

Concerned but not paying: Attitudes to the green transition and willingness to pay

14:00

Exploring post-2014 immigrant integration policies and governance in small and medium-size towns and rural areas in Europe

17:15

After COP29: what next for climate policy?

17:30

Mind the gap: bridging innovation’s supply and demand in the AI era

What is conservatism? A historical perspective

18:00

The Performance Research Forum presents Dr Philippa Burt

"The AI future sucks"

Wednesday

Dec 4

11:00

Blavatnik Index of Public Administration launch

12:00

Goldsmiths Library/Lewisham Libraries Research Cafe

13:00

How to Strengthen Entrepreneurship Policy Evaluation? Getting more reliable evaluations and learning from evaluations (CIMR debates in Public Policy)

17:00

Goldsmiths Writers' Centre presents Grainne Lyons and Karen McLeod

Murray Seminar. The Market for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts c.1890-1929 and its Consequences - Laura Cleaver

Murray Seminar. The Market for Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts c. 1890-1929 and its Consequences - Laura Cleaver

17:30

Why should we care about healthier homes?

Aligning clinical practice, policy and academia

The Dennis Gabor Lecture 2024 –

18:00

The Future of Palaeontology

sa Johannesson Artist Talk

18:30

Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu: "Using the very small to tackle the very large"

Unlocking civic voice

19:00

Black Holes and Bangs

Thursday

Dec 5

12:00

Sex and intimacy in later life: From understanding and acceptance to policy

5 December Finance Research Seminar at Birkbeck – Dr. Giorgia Simion

14:00

"Don't Fade Away": Reverie, Trance, Translation - Bachelard, Narcissus and the Law

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"The AI future sucks"

Birkbeck

December 3

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Birkbeck Clore Management Centre

Event link calender

In the fourth talk of the Critical AI 2024 seminar series, Dr. Reidl proposes that the future promised to us by AI technology will, inevitably, suck. He asks:

What is life like in 'the' AI future?

What are the unique issues with AI that will haunt us?

Do we have a choice?

We encourage academics and students from all areas as well as interested laypeople to join us! he talk will be held in room CLO B01 of the Birkbeck Clore Management Centre and will be followed by a get-together with some refreshments.