Rarely a week goes by without a negative headline about the internet – from teenagers’ mental health and racist algorithms to online conspiracy theories and the power of big tech.

Join a lively discussion with some of the world’s leading thinkers as we reassess our relationship with the internet and set out a positive vision of how it can be improved so we can reshape the digital world into a space where we can all flourish.

We’ll discuss how social scientists and politicians are working with computer scientists to use AI and machine-learning to make the internet safer and better. We’ll look at where responsibility lies: big tech, government, lawmakers, and individuals.

But are there potential drawbacks? Could we inadvertently lose freedom online and could free speech be curtailed?

Come along to ask questions, make comments, and join in the conversation.

Speakers

Helen Margetts OBE 

Helen Margetts is a Turing Fellow and Director of the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute, and Professor of Society and the Internet at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College.

Silvia Milano 

Milano is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Philosophy of Data and Data Ethics in the SPA Department and Egenis centre at the University of Exeter. Previously she was a Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) in the Faculty of Philosophy and a William Golding Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford.

Chico Camargo 

Camargo is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Exeter, a research associate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, member of the Council of the Complex Systems Society, Computational Social Science theme lead at the Institute for Data Science and AI, and the director of the CC Lab.

Ritula Shah (Chair) 

Previously producer of Today and presenter of Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4, Ritula Shah became the lead presenter of The World Tonight in 2013.

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