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Future of higher ed takes centre stage at Delphi Economic Forum
Imperial’s President Alice Gast joined Heads of State as well as leading industrialists and thinkers at the sixth Delphi Economic Forum.
The annual conference took place in hybrid format from Athens, Greece, with major themes including the Global Economy, Technology and the Future of Growth, Sustainability and Climate Change, and Geopolitics & International Security.
President Gast talked about the growing importance of technology in delivering education – for example through remote laboratory experiments – which can also open up opportunities for collaborative teaching, involving students from around the world.
HIGHER EDUCATION FUTURE - Imperial’s President Alice Gast joined Heads of State as well as leading industrialists and thinkers at the sixth Delphi Economic Forum.
GCHQ Director: The UK and Allies Must Counter âExistential Threatâ to the Digital Environment
The UK must work with other liberal democracies to ensure the internet and emerging digital technologies remain free and open. This is the view of Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, who gave the 2021 Vincent Briscoe lecture for the Institute for Security Science and Technology at Imperial College London.
Fleming began by noting the increasingly prominent role of technology in all areas of society, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in the past year. While technological advancements have had enormous benefits, improving interconnectivity and convenience, they have also provided more opportunities for malicious actors to cause harm. “We must acknowledge that our adversaries benefit too. They exploit the tools that were meant to bring society together to instead create discord,” he said. “They misuse that power to fuel division, exploit vulnerable people and pe
One of the greatest strengths of artificial intelligence (AI) – its ability to learn and adapt over time – could also be its Achilles’ heel.
When a product or service can learn and evolve through experience and interactions with human beings, it can be hard to pinpoint who is responsible when something goes wrong. How to allow for this dynamism and, at the same time, build trust in artificial intelligence was one of the key topics of debate in a Science|Business webinar entitled:
AI: Who is Liable? - the latest in a series produced by Science|Business Data Rules group.
“You see association effects where man and machine work together in a specific context, but it is unclear what the machine has learned from man, and what man has learned from the machine,’ noted Evert Stamhuis, senior fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence Digital Governance, Erasmus University Rotterdam.