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“We’re all going to die! (Or are we?)”

What could AI mean for the next 50 years? Guest speaker, Martha Lane Fox, entrepreneur, legislator and board member, will draw on her wide-ranging experience to explore AI’s potential effects on work and business, entrepreneurial opportunity, existing institutions, culture, security and defence.

Chaired by Prof Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.

? Thursday 26 November 2026
 ? 17:30 to 19:00 (doors open at 17:00)
Lee Seng Tee Hall, Wolfson College, Cambridge, CB3 9BB

Free - booking is required

Book your place https://bit.ly/policylecture2026

Annual Public Policy Lecture: We’re all going to die! (Or are we?)

Drawing on her experience as an entrepreneur, legislator and board member, Martha Lane Fox will explore what AI could mean for the next 50 years, including its effects on work, business, entrepreneurial opportunity, existing institutions, culture, security and defence. Chaired by Prof Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge.

Tue 17 September 2024 7:00PM - 8:00PM

Highlight The Really Popular Book Club: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

Cambridge University Libraries' book club is hosted monthly and online - join us!

Thu 19 September 2024 4:30PM - 6:00PM

Bringing the Ancestors Home: how Cambridge collections can support repatriation using osteobiographies

Book your place for the talk ‘Bringing the Ancestors Home: how Cambridge collections can support repatriation using osteobiographies’ where you’ll have the opportunity to hear from members of the Duckworth Laboratory and Indigenous communities from Australia and Papua New Guinea about collaborative research and current issues around collections and repatriation.

5:30PM - 6:30PM

Participatory Textile Practices (A Roundtable)

Join a roundtable with four speakers who have great experience of community-led, collaborative, and participatory textile art making.

5:30PM - 7:30PM

Participatory Textile Practices (A Roundtable)

Join a roundtable with four speakers who have great experience of community-led, collaborative, and participatory textile art making.