Roger Penrose, Kate Devlin, Martin Rees, Nigel Shadbolt, Marta Halina & David Malone discuss the rise of artificial intelligence.

Chapters:
00:00​​ Introduction
00:38​ – Roger Penrose
05:09​ – Martin Rees
09:21​ – Kate Devlin
12:16​ – Marta Halina
18:15​ – David Malone
28:04​ – Nigel Shadbolt

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Sir Roger Penrose is a world-renowned physicist, best known for his work on general relativity and sharing the Wolf Prize for Physics with Stephen Hawking for their work on black holes. His books include The Road to Reality and The Emperor’s New Mind.

Sir Nigel Richard Shadbolt is Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He is Chairman of the Open Data Institute which he co-founded with Tim Berners-Lee.

Kate Devlin is a British computer scientist specialising in Artificial intelligence and Human–computer interaction. She is Senior Lecturer in Social and Cultural Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London and is the author of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots.

Martin John Rees is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005 and 2010

Marta Halina works at the University of Cambridge, lecturing in the Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences. Her research focuses on nonhuman animal cognition, mechanistic explanation, and artificial intelligence.

David Malone is an independent filmmaker, Green Party politician, and author of The Debt Generation.

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