Excited to attend AI Everything in Dubai, coinciding with the World Expo. I’ll be speaking a bit about what Digital Catapult is doing with AI, and several of the startups associated with DC will be presenting as well. Should be a great event!
Glad to be representing Digital Catapult as their Head of AI at The World Summit AI in Amsterdam. I’ll be participating in an interesting roundtable on future UK/NL AI collaboration.
Looking forward to being on a panel with Gina Rippon and Gavin Evans at The British Science Festival, Europe’s longest-established science festival, which will bring 100+ events to Chelmsford this September! Tickets are FREE, but limited. Book yours now! #BSF21
It’s challenging days for book events, but the great people at Salon London have adapted, and are delivering a series of online events, including book clubs, and I’m glad that Rage is featured at one in early May (click here for tickets).
The event is a live stream, and I’ll be there to talk to folks about the book. The event is only 5 GBP, or free if you buy the book from Salon, for only 20 GBP. But the best deal is to become a Salon member, get the book, and the event for only 85 GBP: This will entitle you to lots of great Salon events in the future, and lots of other benefits.
Hope to see lots of you there!
The final stop on my Oz Rage promotion tour will be a talk at The Home of Arts on the Gold Coast. I’m so lucky to have the opportunity to talk about the book in such a great location!
Third stop of my Oz Rage promotion tour is a talk I’m honoured to give at The University of New South Wales.
I’m just about bursting my seams thinking about appearing at WOMADelaide Planet Talks as the second stop on my Oz Rage promotion tour!
In March 2020, I’m super excited to be starting a down-under tour to promote Rage at the Adelaide Writers Week, as a part of the Adelaide Festival!
Proud to be speaking at Confluence, an exciting event about business and the future of storytelling, in London.
Excited to be doing a “ThinkIn” event with Tortoise Media: it’s an exciting format that is described as follows:
A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. Modelled on what we call a ‘leader conference’ in the UK (or an editorial board in the US), it is a place where everyone has a seat at the table. It’s where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It’s where, together, we sift through what we know to come to a clear, concise point of view. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise.
And this particular ThinkIn is described as follows:
Artificial intelligence could save your life - or cost you your job. Machine learning is disrupting industries from healthcare to the military. But what are the rules governing AI and us, the human beings who it is supposed to serve? How do we make sure that AI is used for good and not abused by grasping corporates or authoritarian governments? How do we safeguard our data privacy while stoking AI innovation that could change our lives for the better? The first of three ThinkIns around AI, this session will examine what this new technology means...to us.
I’m excited that I’m being interviewed for this program, which is being created by one of my favorite science journalists, Angela Saini.
Pleased to talk with fellow Alabamian Jim Blasingame (The Small Business Advocate) on his radio show, which will also be available as a downloadable podcast. Jim titled our chat together When human intelligence is seduced by machine intelligence.
P.S. Jim’s new book The Third Ingredient: The Journey of Analog Ethics Into The World of Digital Fear and Greed sounds interesting and resonant with Rage! Can’t wait to read it!
Excited to be in this panel discussion chaired by Mark Piesing, with Candice F., Taylan Kamis, and Alex Hardy, for a Byte the Book event at the H Club (formerly the Hospital Club) in London. Given that I have some history in using AI in real-world creative processes (see the Fighter Aircraft Combat work I discuss in Rage), I look forward to participating in the conversation! Hope some of you can be there too! Tickets here.
I’ll be talking about Rage with Jim Beach of School for Startups Radio, which is available as a podcast, and on 25 AM stations across the USA.
Glad to be appearing on Conversations with Peter Solomon, which broadcasts on WIP AM in Philadelphia, PA, and via podcast (which I’ll post to the A/V page when it becomes available)
Okay, so I’m on a show that often features conspiracy theories. But it is the top overnight show in the USA. And I look forward to telling them that the social effects of algorithms aren’t a conspiracy: it’s far worse than that. Note that the time listed on this (and all) events is London time.
I’ll be on the Louie B. Free show from The Vindicator Newsroom (WYCL-AM Cleveland OH)!
Super excited to be the interviewee on an upcoming BBC Trending, which is a show carried regularly on the BBC World Service. The interviewer is journalist Anisa Subedar, who did this marvellous work on The Godfather of Fake News, and its produced by Marco Silva, The main event time is for the UK broadcast, and a complete list of international broadcast times appears below.
Here’s the BBC’s blurb on the show:
“Algorithms have shaped the internet as we know it. Complex automated instructions drive search engines and social media platforms, and offer us each a tailored, individualised online experience.
Techno-optimists have long looked at artificial intelligence in awe, hoping that machines and algorithms would help humans find solutions for complex problems and remove human bias.
But some are more sceptical and argue algorithms not only have human prejudices built into them – but that they are making those biases worse.
Robert Elliott Smith is an expert in artificial intelligence and author of the new book Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All.
He argues that algorithms are prejudiced by their very nature and that, in their search for simple solutions to human questions, they have created divisions among us.
He also argues algorithms have amplified our biases and turned many of us into bigots.
But are the machines really to blame? Or are they just mirroring who we really are?”
International Broadcast Times:
Australasia | sat 07:06-07:29 | rpt: Sat 14:32-14:50, 20:32-20:50 AEST (Fri 21:06-21:29, Sat 04:32-04:50, Sat 10:32-10:50 GMT)
ABC | Sat 07:06-07:29 | rpt: Sat 20:32-20:50 AEST (Fri 21:06-21:29; Sat 10:32-10:50 GMT)
East Asia | Fri 21:06-21:29 | rpt: Sat 04:32-04:50, 10:32-10:50 GMT
South Asia | Fri 21:06-21:29 | rpt: Sat 10:32-10:50 GMT
East Africa | Fri 21:06-21:29 | rpt: Sat 10:32-10:50 GMT
West Africa | Sat 04:32-04:50 | rpt: Sat 10:32-10:50 GMT
Middle East | Fri 21:06-21:29| rpt: Sat 04:32-04:50, 10:32-10:50 GMT
Europe | Fri 21:06-21:29 | rpt: Sat 04:32-04:50, 10:32-10:50 GMT
UK | Fri 21:06-21:29 | rpt: Sat 04:32-04:50, 10:32-10:50 GMT
North & Central America | Fri 21:06-21:29 | rpt: Sat 04:32-04:50, 10:32-10:50 GMT
News Stream | Fri 21:06-21:29 | rpt: Sat 04:32-04:50, 10:32-10:50 GMT
APM | Sat 00:32-00:50 | rpt: Sun 05:32-05:50, 11:06-11:29 EDT (Sat 04:32-04:50; Sun 09:32-09:50, 15:06-15:29 GMT)
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For those of you who may be in the Sacramento, California area, at 13:00 Pacific Time on October 1st, I’ll be on Popoff with Mary Jane, discussing Rage! The show is on KAHI (The Voice of the Foothills, 104.5 FM and 950 AM) and it streams from the KAHI site.
I’ve done a couple of these local radio talk shows to promote the book, and I think they are a hoot. I love being interrupted by the local traffic report!
At 12:45 Pacific Time, Friday, September 27, I’m going to be talking about Rage on Rising Up With Sonali, which is on FreeSpeech TV, as well as the Pacifica Radio Network (KPFK-LA, KPFK.org, KPFA-Berkeley, KPFA.org). Should be interesting…
Excited to be doing a single-book event at the Hay Hill Club. Not open to the public, but I hope to post some video or audio after the event.
It’ll be a privilege to give a talk at Google’s London headquarters. This isn’t a public event, but I hope a video will appear on the Google Talks site soon afterwards!
I look forward to giving a breakfast talk at Devonshire Member’s Club in London.
This event is open to the public, and for 20 pounds you get breakfast, the talk, and a copy of the book!
Here’s Salon’s writeup of the event.
I’ll be giving a talk and participating in a number of events at the always wonderful Also Festival. The schedule is still in flux, but I’ll update to give exact times later.
I’m glad to be teaming with Chris Kutarna for a workshop on AI at The Centre of Intelligence Innovation at Royal Air Force Station at Wyton. The event is closed to the public, but the one hour lecture at 11 is open to those who work at RAF Wyton.
It’ll be exciting to give a talk to the people who have published Rage. Private event, but I’ll try to post something from it afterwards!
