Beyond online safety: AI, web3, and the Metaverse
What is the future of online safety?
The Online Safety Bill gives social media companies a duty of care towards their users, as a means of mitigating the wide range of harms their business activities seem to produce.
But even as the Bill is making its way through parliament, the technology landscape continues to evolve. With advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), increasing adoption of web3 technologies like blockchain, and big tech investing billions in building the all-encompassing virtual world known as the metaverse, how should policymakers respond?
This panel discussion will consider emerging forms of technology, the unintended online harms they might produce, and what can be done to mitigate them.
Guest speakers:
- Ramsay Brown, CEO, AI Responsibility Lab
- Prof Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy & Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy
- Sam Gilbert, Affiliated Researcher at Bennett Institute for Public Policy
- Alison Kilburn, Director of Analysis, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Chair:
- Dr Julian Huppert, Director of the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College Cambridge
More about the speakers
Ramsay Brown
Ramsay Brown is the Chief Executive Officer of the AI Responsibility Lab, Public Benefit Corporation; a venture-backed software company accelerating AI Safety for the enterprise. His team builds the platforms, ideas, and community that accelerate quality, velocity, and trust in AI; such as their ML Governance automation platform, Mission Control. Ramsay holds a MSc in Neuroinformatics from the University of Southern California.
Prof Diane Coyle
Professor Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She co-directs the Bennett Institute where she heads research under the themes of progress and productivity. Diane is also a Director of the Productivity Institute, a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics, an expert adviser to the National Infrastructure Commission, and Senior Independent Member of the ESRC Council.
Sam Gilbert
Sam Gilbert is an entrepreneur and an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, working at the intersection of politics and technology. He is the author of the book, “Good Data” and recent policy briefs on The Online Safety Bill, and Crypto, Web3 and the Metaverse. He holds an MPhil with distinction in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge, and a BA with first class honours in Modern History and English from the University of Oxford.
Alison Kilburn
Alison Kilburn joined the UK government’s DCMS in August 2021 in the newly created role of Director of Analysis. She is a professional economist and an experienced leader of analysts, having spent the past decade as a senior civil servant leading multi-disciplinary analyst teams. She joined DCMS from BEIS, where she was Acting Director of Analysis and has also worked in HM Treasury and Cabinet Office.
This Cambridge Festival event is cohosted by the Bennett Institute for Public Policy and the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, Cambridge.
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