Thursday 19th February

8:00PM

The Cambridge Union

Since 2022, Ai Has evolved from a digital novelty into a critical global dependency. As algorithms shift from information sharing to medical triage and autonomous defence, we face a moral precipice. Can non-human intelligence provide objective precision in life-and-death stakes, or is the power over human life a responsibility that must never be outsourced to an algorithm?

For The Ayes

Dr Henry Shevlin
Dr Henry Shevlin is an AI ethicist and philosopher of cognitive science, and Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the big questions about AI and non-human intelligence. He writes and speaks widely on AI consciousness, moral status, and the ethics of our relationships with machines.

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For The Noes

Dr Fazl Barez
Fazl Barez is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, leading research on Technical AI Safety, Interpretability, and Governance. He is affiliated with Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and has worked with Anthropic’s Alignment team on research investigating deception in language models.

Allison Gardner MP
Allison Gardber is the Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent- South. She is an expert in AI and Data Ethics with interests in health technology, algorithmic bias, diversity and inclusion. She is an experienced educator and a Senior Research Fellow at Keele University. She is co-founder and director of Women Leading in AI.

Demetrius Floudas
Demetrius Floudas is an AI policy strategist, a geopolitical adviser and a lawyer specialising in AI Governance. He is Visiting Scholar at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and a practicing lawyer. Floudas has provided commentary on matters of Foreign Policy & AI Geopolitics to a number of international outlets.