AI is everywhere – writing our emails, making our playlists, even diagnosing diseases. But do we really understand what’s happening? Is AI the hero we’ve been waiting for, or the villain in humanity’s next great crisis?

Enter Richard Susskind, a leading thinker on AI who’s been exploring its impact for decades. He’s here to challenge everything you think you know—why ChatGPT is just the beginning, why today’s AI debates miss the bigger picture, and why the most important AI breakthroughs are still on the horizon.

Forget the usual AI panic or blind optimism—this is a conversation about what’s really at stake. Will AI reshape the economy, rewrite human intelligence, or just generate better cat videos? More importantly—are we asking the right questions?

If you’re ready to think differently about AI, join us for a conversation that looks beyond the headlines and into the future.

Event Schedule

6:00pm: Pre-event socialising and networking

A cash bar will be available for refreshments.

6:15pm: Event begins

7:30pm: Event ends

Speakers

Professor Richard Susskind OBE KC (Hon) is Special Envoy for Justice and AI to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law, and for 25 years, from 1998 to 2023, was Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. The author of 12 books, his work has been translated into 16 languages and he has been invited to speak in over 50 countries. He wrote his doctorate on AI and law at Balliol College Oxford in the mid-1980s. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.