11th June 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to lead to substantial economic growth and prosperity. To achieve these objectives, we need to ensure the larger-scale adoption and diffusion of these technologies in a way that maximises their economic value for corporations, consumers and the industrial production.

12th June 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

Recent developments in social media demonstrate that innovation cannot reliably be left to govern itself. This lesson has given rise to numerous AI governance initiatives, ranging from voluntary guidelines to binding regulatory frameworks, that underscore the importance of maintaining a “human-in-the-loop”, to align algorithmic systems with societal values and mitigate potential harms. Although the idea of independent accountability mechanisms for AI has become a focal point within the field, only one model currently exists in which an external body is empowered to issue binding decisions for a technology company, and make recommendations.

12th June 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

The illusions that have long defined Africa-Europe relations are not just outdated—they are, Professor Carlos Lopes argues, actively harmful. As Africa repositions itself within a rapidly changing global order, clinging to legacy narratives only deepens inequality and missed opportunities.

16th June 2025: 12:30pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

The Tony Blair Institute of Global Change recently published an article asserting that reducing emissions was difficult and would fail unless we expanded use of technologies that are expensive and a challenge to living standards. This is reminiscent of nineteenth century economist William Stanley Jevons’ in “The Coal Question”, warning of the limits that finite coal resources placed on British prosperity. The hole in both visions is the absence of international trade.

16th June 2025: 5:00pm   Registration Required
Oxford Martin School & Online

In recent years, and certainly since the launch of ChatGPT, there has been massive public and professional interest in Artificial Intelligence. But people are confused about what AI is, what it can and cannot do, what is yet to come, and whether AI is good or bad for humanity and civilisation - whether it will provide solutions to mankind's major challenges or become our gravest existential threat. There is also confusion about how we should regulate AI and where we should draw moral boundaries on its use.