The noise around Artificial Intelligence is fast approaching a deafening (and often contradictory) roar.
So how do we cut through all the chatter and create the conditions for a real conversation?
Is it possible to sit down together and work through some of the issues at stake without polarisation, or lecturing, or jargon?
What would that even feel like?
Who could we include?
And what would happen to the technology, the policy, and to society if we did?
Join the Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public on Thursday 3rd April for another edition of The Hopes and Fears Lab – the flagship conversation experiment that gets everyone talking, and listening, about the science shaping our world.
Our artist-designed Lab is free, open, and inviting – allowing members of the public to sit down with researchers at the cutting edge of AI development for 15 minute mini conversations about our shared hopes and fears for this technology.
Topics up for discussion include AI & Health; AI & Climate; AI & Cities; AI & Justice; AI & Society; AI & Education; AI & Truth … and many more.
And whether you know lots, or a little, or don’t know what you think yet … everyone is welcome.
And it works!
In collaboration with ai@cam, The Hopes and Fears Lab has already popped up on double decker buses in the heart of Cambridge to ask ‘Where are we going with AI?’ and helped The People’s Panel on AI ponder their recommendations to government as part of the Bletchley Park summit.
(You can see the Lab in action here).
This time, we’re part of The Cambridge Festival and setting up shop in The Copper Kettle – a much loved Cambridge landmark for town and gown since the time of Alan Turing.
Join us to discover what everyone’s talking about!
The Hopes and Fears Lab: AI edition
(The Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public, in association with ai@cam)
Thursday 3rd April 2025
4-8pm
The Copper Kettle cafe
4 King’s Parade
Cambridge
CB2 1SJ