Events

Date: 29 October 2024   Time: 18:00 - 19:30

Location: GO Jones Lecture Theatre, Queen Mary University of London 327 Mile End Road London E1 4NS Map 

Professor Shalom Lappin continues his lecture series presenting the core ideas of his forthcoming book, Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Neither Catastrophe nor Redemption (Polity Books, 2025).

Prof. Lappin will consider some of the apocalyptic scenarios envisioned by various commentators as a consequence of the AI revolution. He will argue that these scenarios generally lack clear factual grounding in the actual capabilities of existing systems or those likely to emerge in the foreseeable future. However, he notes that current AI technology does create a variety of problems that pose acute dangers to our collective well-being. These issues are often underappreciated due to the focus on more dramatic but unlikely eventualities. Prof. Lappin will review methods that might be available or could be developed to address the real, as opposed to imagined, dangers of AI.