{"id":7825,"date":"2026-10-27T12:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/?p=7825"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:10:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:10:41","slug":"lecture-a-collectivist-economic-perspective-on-ai-18-nov-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/2026\/10\/27\/lecture-a-collectivist-economic-perspective-on-ai-18-nov-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture: A collectivist, economic perspective on AI &#8211; (18 Nov 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: A collectivist, economic perspective on AI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong>Professor Michael I Jordan, Director of Research at Inria Paris<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Wednesday 18<sup>th<\/sup> November, refreshments from 3:30pm, talk from 4:30pm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> SAF 16, South Kensington campus<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>15:30 &#8211; Refreshments and poster presentations<\/p>\n<p>16:30 &#8211; Gabor Lecture<\/p>\n<p>18:00 &#8211; Refreshments and research posters<\/p>\n<p>Michael\u2019s talk is highly topical and will focus on how we should all be thinking about AI not just as individual machines designed to imitate human intelligence but as part of a wider system of people, technology, markets and institutions. He will challenge the idea that AI progress is simply about building ever more capable machines but ask how we design AI enabled systems that work effectively for society as a whole, rather than optimising technology in isolation.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is a leading computer scientist and statistician with more than 40 years advancing machine learning, statistics and AI.<\/p>\n<p>This is a timely talk that will be of interest to many so please do register your spot early to avoid disappointment \u2013 all welcome!<\/p>\n<p>Full abstract and link to register your place here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/events\/214455\/gabor2026\/\">https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/events\/214455\/gabor2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: A collectivist, economic perspective on AI Speaker: Professor Michael I Jordan, Director of Research at Inria Paris Date: Wednesday 18th November, refreshments from 3:30pm, talk from 4:30pm Location: SAF 16, South Kensington campus Agenda 15:30 &#8211; Refreshments and poster presentations 16:30 &#8211; Gabor Lecture 18:00 &#8211; Refreshments and research posters Michael\u2019s talk is highly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1878,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[320928],"tags":[320929,320930,320931],"class_list":["post-7825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-events","tag-doctoral-students","tag-masters-students","tag-research-staff"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1878"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7826,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions\/7826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/early-career-researcher-noticeboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}