Lecture, Barnard's Inn Hall, Tuesday, 25 Nov 2025 - 18:00

Becoming AI – Your Journey to Assimilation?

Human head with a digital overlay representing artificial intelligence

Wittgenstein wrote: “If a lion could talk, we would not understand it”. That is, as lions and humans are not of the same material, they could not say anything meaningful to each other. AI is not like us; the only way we can have a relationship with it is for us to become like it. We will look at how digital services are already making us machine-like; and, we explore how advanced AI-human fusions may undo our essential “humanness”.

Professor Matt Jones

Professor Matt Jones

IT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology

Matt Jones is a computer scientist at Swansea University - and a Fellow of the British Computer Society - who works alongside colleagues from many...

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