Ask the Experts: can we trust AI?

As ChatGPT and generative AI become part of our everyday lives, how can we know what or whom to believe? Can we trust the things that AI tells us? And how can we distinguish between what is real and what is fake in a world of AI-generated content? Tackle the challenges and opportunities that AI presents to our ideas of trust and truthfulness with our panel of experts. Professor Helen Margetts FBA , Professor Louise Amoore FBA, and guests will answer your questions about AI; and reflect on how this new technology is changing the way we live and how we acquire knowledge.

Speakers:

Professor Helen Margetts FBA

Helen Margetts is Professor of Society and the Internet and Professorial Fellow at Mansfield College. She is also Director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence. She has written extensively about the relationship between technology, politics, public policy and government. Her book 'Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action' won the Political Studies Association’s W.J. Mackenzie prize for best politics book in 2017. She has presented her work all over the world at forums from the Hay Literary Festival to Harvard University and MIT and the Royal Society to Davos (2014). She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2019.

Professor Louise Amoore FBA

Louise Amoore is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University. Her work explores how data, algorithms, and other technological developments are changing the nature of state of security and society. Her most recent book is 'Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others'. She was made Fellow of the British Academy in 2023. 

Chair:

Hetan Shah

Hetan Shah is Chief Executive at the British Academy, the UK’s national academy for humanities and social sciences. He is Chair of Our World in Data, which brings together research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems. Hetan was appointed in 2024 by the UK Parliament to the board of the National Audit Office, the UK’s independent spending watchdog. He is Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, Kings College London and a Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Hetan serves on a number of advisory boards including the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, the UCL Policy Lab and the Resolution Foundation.

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