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This AI Life: IET Honorary Fellow Will.I.Am in conversation with Peter Warren

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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 03 October 2018
  • 17:00
  • Duration: 34 mins
  • Publication date: 08 Nov 2018
  • Location: Kelvin Lecture Theatre, IET London: Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event This AI Life

About the session

‘This AI Life’ was the second annual conference in the series examining the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the population.  The aim of this year’s event was to offer a pragmatic assessment of where AI technology is, where it is going, what that means and what we must do to ensure it works to improve people’s lives.

For more information on This AI Life, visit www.theiet.org/ai

About the IET

The IET is one of the world’s largest engineering institutions with over 168,000 members in 150 countries. It is also the most multidisciplinary – to reflect the increasingly diverse nature of engineering in the 21st century. The IET is working to engineer a better world by inspiring, informing and influencing our members, engineers and technicians, and all those who are touched by, or touch, the work of engineers.

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  • artificial intelligence
  • computation
  • data
  • education
  • ethics
  • language
  • machine learning
  • satellite
  • technology

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  • Peter Warren

    Peter Warren

    Peter is a freelance journalist specialising in technology, undercover investigations and science issues. Former technology editor of Scotland on Sunday and the Sunday Express and an associate producer for BBC2, he has worked for both print and broadcast media, including the Guardian, the Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Times Magazine, the Sunday Express, Sunday Business, Channel 4, Sky News, the BBC and specialist magazines. He has also advised a number of PR agencies on their technology clients.Peter, who lives in Suffolk, is an acknowledged expert on computer security issues.Author of Cyber Alert, published in 2005 and of Cyber Crime and Warfare published in 2013, Peter is a regular contributor to the BBC and to Sky News, and also appears as a commentator on technology issues on broadcast networks around the world as well as presenting a monthly radio show on the ramifications of technology for Resonance FM audience of 750,000 people across the South East of England and internationally.
  • Will.i.am Adams

    Will.i.am Adams

    Will.i.am is the Co-Founder and CEO of I.AM.PLUS, a Los Angeles-based technology company specializing in AI for enterprise and consumer applications, that is also creating smarter consumer technology devices. He is also a member of the World Economic Forum's 4th Industrial Revolution Advisory Board that is helping to shape the increasing role of advanced technologies, like AI have in society.
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