The Alan Turing Lecture, launched in 2017, attracts a leading authority on the life of Alan Turing or one of the key disciplines on which his work has had greatest impact. This event has become a highlight in the intellectual and social calendar of the College, raising the profile of Turing and his legacy at King’s, and drawing together the academic community.
The Alan Turing Lecture 2024 was held on Friday 3rd May.
This year’s lecture was given by Professor Jude Browne, on '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.
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).
The lecture was open to all King’s alumni – you can watch the recording here.
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
Alan Turing Lecture 2021 'Modelling Pattern Formation in Developmental Biology' by Professor Philip Maini FRS, University of Oxford
Online Alan Turing event 2021 'Bringing the Polish Cyclometer back to life', with Dr Tim Flack, King’s College and Hal Evans, Department of Engineering