CSER co-sponsored and co-organised the 2016 Wilberforce Society Conference, which was on the subject of ‘Technology: Challenging and Changing the State?’
Read more on the 2016 Conference website.
Schedule:
9:45 Welcome and registration
10:00 Session 1 – E-Democracy (?)
11:30 Short Break
11:40 Session 2 – Artificial Intelligence
13:10 Lunch Break
2:15 Session 3 – New Media and the State
3:45 Short Break
4:00 Session 4 – Technological Unemployment
5:00 End
Speakers included:
– Demis Hassabis, renowned researcher in AI, neuroscientist, world-class game designer, and visiting scientist at MIT and Harvard, VP of Engineering at Google
– Kay Firth-Butterfield, Head of Ethical Advisory Panel at Lucid AI
– Dr Fumiya Lida, lecturer in mechatronics at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge University Engineering Department
– Charlotte Holloway, Head of Policy and Associate Director at TechUK
– Dr Graeme Philp, Chief Executive of GAMBICA, a technology industry trade association
