Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present, Future... Singularity? Event

Southampton Arts and Humanities Festival, Exploring the human within

A special evening of short talks by humanities scholars at the University of Southampton on the topic of artificial intelligence, followed by a reception and a showing of the 2013 Spike Jonze film 'Her'.

Talks include:

Kendrick Oliver : "Early conceptions of artificial intelligence and its consequences"
Chris Fuller : "The US-China AI arms race: how history can help us understand the peril, promise, and path of this competition"
Will McNeill : "What's really inside the black box?"
James Baker : "Generative AI and the climate crisis"
Sofia Bull and Matt Kerr : "Learning machines: teaching AI in literature and film"

Suitability: Ages 16+