RESPONSIBLE AI SEMINAR SERIES
Tuesday, 10 November | 9.30 – 11.00am | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building
“AI Governance for Organisations”
Dr Achim Rosemann, University of Cambridge
The seminar examines key components of organisational AI governance to help leaders and decision-makers implement responsible AI strategies within companies, universities, charities, and other organisations. Designed as an interactive session, the seminar will invite participants to work in small groups to explore the adoption of an AI system in an organisational setting of their choice.
Tuesday, 17 November | 9.30 – 11.00am | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building
“Emerging Questions in AI Welfare”
Geoff Keeling and Winnie Street, Google
This talk will provide the philosophical groundwork for a scientific, philosophical and ultimately democratic inquiry into the potential for AI welfare, addressing key questions that cut across different arguments: what welfare is, how to interpret behavioural evidence of AI welfare, what kinds of entities might qualify as candidate AI welfare subjects, the potential grounds for welfare in AI and the practical ethical challenges that arise from our uncertainty.
Monday, 23 November | 9.30 – 11.00am | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building
“In Praise of Local AI Agents”
Dr Juan Pablo Bermúdez, University of Southampton
One of the most intriguing theories in philosophy is the extended mind hypothesis: the view that our minds are so intertwined with parts of our environment that our mind itself extends beyond our skull and into the world. We offload maths to a calculator, memory to our notebooks – and now we offload reasoning and creativity to AI. This talk will explore our relationship with AI through the extended mind lens. Is it possible that our thinking, learning, and creating become so integrated with LLMs that these systems become part of our minds? And if so, what are the practical consequences?
Tuesday, 24 November | 9.30 – 11.00am | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building
“Rise of the Intention Economy: How Generative AI Transforms the Attention Economy”
Dr Jonnie Penn, University of Cambridge
This talk identifies and names a new economic model emerging from unprecedented investment in generative and agentic AI–one focused not on capturing attention, but on predicting and shaping human intention instead. Drawing on more than a decade of original research with Dr Yaqub Chaudhary, the talk argues that AI systems are already being used to forecast and intervene in ‘intelligent’ decision-making processes across work, politics, markets and everyday life, with far-reaching consequences for democracy and the institutions behind shared reality.
Tuesday, 1 December | 9.30 – 11.00am | Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building
“Governing AI in an Unequal World”
Dr Rachel Adams, University of Cambridge
The talk will consider what a genuinely global system of AI governance would require if it is to do more than manage the risks created by today’s distribution of technological power. It asks how international cooperation might instead help shape an AI future in which the benefits, capabilities and decision-making power associated with AI are more widely shared, and in which responsible AI is understood not only as a technical or regulatory challenge, but as a question of global justice.