How to be Human in the Digital Age

Sat 7 Sep 2019

Peter Lewis + Toby Walsh

QAG Lecture Theatre

Panel

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#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

Is it possible, or are we really going to become part-robot, trying to live picture-perfect online lives, while falling apart inside? It may not be all that bad. These writers explore why.

#Artists

Peter Lewis

Peter Lewis is the executive director of Essential, a progressive research and communications company. He has worked previously as a journalist and political advisor and is a regular columnist for Guardian Australia. His new book Webtopia: The worldwide wreck of tech and how to make the net work was published in June 2019.

Toby Walsh

Professor Toby Walsh is Chief Scientist of UNSW.AI, UNSW's new AI Institute. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN, and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many others on this topic. This advocacy has led to him being "banned indefinitely" from Russia. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science, and was named on the international "Who's Who in AI" list of influencers. He has written three books on AI for a general audience, the most recent is Machines Behaving Badly: the morality of AI.