CTRL+ALT+FUTURE Forum: Panel Discussion and Workshop

This is a hybrid meeting.

To attend in person at SHHK Conference Room, register here

To attend virtually on Zoom, register here

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CTRL+ALT+FUTURE Forum is a collaboration between the School of Humanities and the Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO). The project seeks to bring writers, scientists, engineers, futurists, and academics together for multidisciplinary discussions on the intersection between the humanities and science and technology. This panel discussion and workshop features presentations by Professor Steven Connor (King's College London) and Dr. Kanta Dihal (Imperial College London). Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome, in person and online.

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Steven Connor is Director of Research in the Digital Futures Institute, King’s College, London. He is the author, among many other books, of Dream Machines (2017) and, most recently, A History of Asking (2023), Dreamwork: Why All Work is Imaginary (2023) and Styles of Seriousness (2023).

Kanta Dihal is Lecturer in Science Communication at Imperial College London and Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. She is co-editor of the books AI Narratives: A History of Imaginative Thinking About Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines (Oxford University Press, 2023) and has co-authored a series of papers on AI narratives with Dr Stephen Cave, including "The Whiteness of AI" (Philosophy and Technology, 2020).