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Beyond Online Safety: AI, web3, and the Metaverse
Mon 20 March
Jesus College
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.
This Cambridge Festival event is organised in collaboration with The Intellectual Forum at Jesus College.
Cost: Free - booking required
Enquiries and booking
Please note that booking is required for this event.
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.
Chair: Dr Julian Huppert, Director of the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College Cambridge
Guest speakers:
Ramsay Brown, CEO at the AI Responsibility Lab
Margie Cheesman, Visiting Fellow at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy
Sam Gilbert, Affiliated Researcher at Bennett Institute for Public Policy, Cambridge
Enquiries: Bennett Institute for Public Policy Website Email: events@bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk