26 Feb 2025
Public talks and lectures
Time
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Venue
Simpkins Lee Seminar Room
Beecroft Building, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU
Beecroft Building, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU
Speaker(s)
Josh Simons, MP
Professor Shivaji Sondhi, University of Oxford
Knowledge of physics?
No, knowledge of physics not required
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This is our second conversation in the series on The Age of AI hosted by Professor Sondhi. This one will feature Josh Simons MP on the subject of AI and Governance. This will be followed by a Q&A session.
Josh Simons is the MP for Makerfield. Previously he has been the director of the think tank Labour Together and visiting research scientist at Facebook, helping develop the company’s ethics strategy for AI. An undergraduate at St Johns, Cambridge, he undertook doctoral studies at Harvard, with his thesis later becoming the basis of his book, Algorithms for the People: Democracy in the Age of AI.
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