King's Members and Friends are warmly invited to attend the Alan Turing Lecture 2024 titled 'AI and Political Responsibility' given by Professor Jude Browne, on Friday, 3rd May at 5.00pm.
The event is free to attend but registration in advance is required due to limited seating in the Keynes Hall. The talk will also be available to watch online via Zoom.
Professor Jude Browne is a Professorial Fellow of King’s College, the Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge and the Jessica and Peter Frankopan Director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies. She is also Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. Her current research focuses on political responsibility, the public interest, feminist theory and structural injustice and the impact of technology on society. Her lecture will draw on her forthcoming book Political Responsibility and Tech Governance: AI, Repro-tech and Structural Injustice (Cambridge University Press).
AI and Political Responsibility: Not a day goes by without a new story on the threats of increasingly clever machines that surpass human capability, comprehension and control. How can we respond? What should we do politically? Jude Browne questions who has political responsibility for the structural impacts of these technologies and how we might think about preparing for the far-reaching societal changes they are set to bring.
The Alan Turing Lecture, launched in 2017, is given by a leading authority from a key discipline on which Turing's work has had greatest impact. This event has become a highlight in the intellectual and social calendar of the College.
Programme
The Alan Turing Lecture is part of a daytime event programme, starting at 2.00pm, that all registered guests are welcome to join.
2.00 - 3.15pm: Alan Turing Archives Exhibition, Audit Room
The papers of Alan Turing have been assembled at King’s College since 1960 when his mother made the first presentation. Whilst his work at Bletchley Park is not well represented (any surviving papers would probably be in The National Archives), the King’s collection has scores of his letters, photographs, reprints (including the Computer Science foundation document on the Entscheidungsproblem), and evidence of his work on artificial intelligence and morphogenesis. Specimens of all will be included in the exhibition.
3.30 - 4.15pm: Computer Science Research Discussion, Keynes Hall
The discussion, hosted by Dr Apinan Hasthanasombat, is themed around ethics in Computer Science, broadly interpreted. Talking to graduate students whose work touches on AI ethics, privacy, and cyber-criminal forums, the discussion aims to look forward and explore some implications of emerging technology to wider society.
4.15 - 4.45pm: Refreshment Break, Chetwynd Room
5.00 - 6.30pm: Alan Turing Lecture ‘AI and Political Responsibility’ by Professor Jude Browne
The lecture will last approximately one hour followed by audience Q&A.
6.30 - 7.15pm: Drinks Reception, Chetwynd Room
How to Register
- If you would like to attend the Alan Turing Lecture 2024 please register for tickets via Ticket Tailor
- If you would like to watch the Lecture online please register via Zoom
Registration to attend the Lecture 'in person' will close when capacity for the Keynes Hall has been reached.
Previous Alan Turing Lectures
Alan Turing Lecture 2023 'The Entscheidungsproblem, revisited.' by Professor Byron Cook, Professor of Computer Science at University College London (UCL) and VP/Distinguished Scientist at Amazon Web Services.
Alan Turing Lecture 2022 'Charting the Horizons of Artificial Intelligence Research’ by Dr Raia Hadsell, Director of Robotics, Deepmind
2021 Digital Alan Turing Event
Alan Turing Lecture 2021 'Modelling Pattern Formation in Developmental Biology' by Professor Philip Maini FRS, University of Oxford
'Bringing the Polish Cyclometer back to life', with Dr Tim Flack and Hal Evans
