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SUMMARY:Frankland Visitor event 2024: 'What the hell is going on with the 
 AI Apocalypse?' - Joanna Kavenna\, Eliane Glaser\, David Malone\, Laurence
  Scott
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240305T173000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240305T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Joanna Kavenna\, Frankland Visitor 2024\, presents a panel dis
 cussion with Eliane Glaser\, David Malone and Laurence Scott. \n2023 has b
 een hailed as 'the year AI ate the internet'. Are we heading for an AI apo
 calypse or are Terminator-style prophecies overblown? Is the AI revolution
  already here? What about questions of democracy\, transparency\, ethics a
 nd freedom? Who decides the future? \n\nJoanna Kavenna is a prize-winning 
 author of several critically acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction in
 cluding ZED\, The Ice Museum\, Inglorious\, The Birth of Love and A Field 
 Guide to Reality. Her novel Inglorious won the Orange Award for New Writin
 g\, and her novel The Birth of Love was longlisted for the Orange Prize. J
 oanna Kavenna’s writing has appeared in The New Yorker\, London Review o
 f Books\, The New York Times and many other publications. She was named as
  one of The Telegraph’s Best Writers under 40 in 2010 and as one of Gran
 ta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 2013. She has held the Alistair 
 Horne Fellowship at St Antony’s College\, Oxford and the Harper-Wood at 
 St John’s College\, Cambridge.\n\nEliane Glaser writes widely on politic
 al propaganda\, manipulation\, and has decades of experience as a BBC prod
 ucer including on Front Row\, Start the Week and Free Thinking.\n\nDavid M
 alone is an award winning science documentary film maker.  In a career spa
 nning nearly 30 years he has made films for the BBC and Channel 4\, on suc
 h topics as consciousness\, the self and soul\, the search for mathematica
 l certainty\, and the relationship between science and religion.  \n\nLaur
 ence Scott is an author and lecturer in writing at New York University\, L
 ondon. He writes widely on an array of themes including the representation
  of queer desire in popular culture.\nSpeakers:\nJoanna Kavenna\, Eliane G
 laser\, David Malone\, Laurence Scott
LOCATION:Brasenose College (Amersi Foundation Lecture Room)\, Radcliffe Sq
 uare OX1 4AJ
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