Human Rights, Robot Wrongs - being human in the age of AI. with Susie Alegre

Emma Martin Lecture

Presented by: Bristol Humanists

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0	BRISTOL: Unitarian Meeting Hall
P	Monday 7th October, 2024
N	7:15pm

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In her first book 'Freedom to Think' Suzie Alegre explored the history of legal freedoms around what we think. In her new book (2024), she has now turned her attention to the role of artificial intelligence in our lives. No longer an uncertain technology of the distant future, artificial intelligence is starting to shape every aspect of our daily lives, from how we think to who we love.

Susie Alegre will explore the ways in which artificial intelligence threatens our fundamental human rights - including the rights to life, liberty and fair trial; the right to private and family life; and the right to free expression - and how we protect those rights. Susie will touch on the many profound ethical dilemmas posed by emerging technologies, and illustrate through a number of case studies.

"Eye-opening... acknowledging the fallibility of machines and the need to hold those responsible for harm to account …" - Marina Wheeler, New Statesman
"Alegre's sharp legal brain conjures up the wicked problems of AI and provides a legal blueprint for humanity's survival. Utterly brilliant." ― Baroness Helena Kennedy
"This is a thought-provoking, challenging, and very humane book, which in an ideal world would be required reading in every Silicon Valley boardroom" ― Michael Wooldridge

Susie Alegre is a leading international human rights lawyer & barrister who has worked for NGOs like Amnesty International and international organisations, such as the UN, around the world. She is currently a Member of the Commission for Control of Interpol's Files and is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), as well as a barrister at Garden Court Chambers. She has been a legal pioneer in the field of digital rights. Susie's first book, Freedom to Think, received wide acclaim, was chosen as a Book of the Year 2022 by the Financial Times and the Daily Telegraph, and longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing and shortlisted for the Christopher Bland Prize. She is a patron of Humanists UK.

Emma Martin was Bristol's most important freethinker, feminist and human rights campaigner. In her short life (1812-1851), she went from committed Christian to outspoken atheist/freethinker working for the Owenites, speaking to thousands and publishing pamphlets on the role of the church and on women's rights. Later on she trained as a midwife and campaigned on reproductive rights. She has a blue plaque dedicated to her in Bridewell Street, and annually we celebrate her life with this special talk.

The event will have a bookstall provide by Heron Books, for signing and sale of Susie Alegre's books

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