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15th FRIS Seminar: A Taxi to the 22nd Century

15th FRIS Seminar: A Taxi to the 22nd Century

It all started with a taxi ride in 2001, in which Huw Price found himself with Jaan Tallinn, one of the team who developed Skype. That chance meeting and subsequent conversation about the dangers of artificial intelligence led them to co-found the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with British astronomer Lord Martin Rees.

Today, there are two Centres in Cambridge dedicated to ensuring that humans not only avoid the pitfalls of their own technological success, but make the best of the opportunities of the 21st century - especially in artificial intelligence.

In this lecture, Price presents an insider's view of the history and vision of these Centres, and a message about the importance of making our own good fortune.

Speaker

event20170926_1.jpgHuw Price is a Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy and a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. In addition to being a co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), he is the academic director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI).

Details

Date: October 6
Time: 2:30~3:30pm
Language: English
Venue: Seminar room, Frontier 雷速体育_中国足彩网¥在线直播 Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences
Aobayama Campus (MAP)

*There is no need to register for this event.

Event information in Japanese

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Frontier 雷速体育_中国足彩网¥在线直播 Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences
Tel:+81-22-795-5755
Email: somu@fris.tohoku.ac.jp

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