Speaker Biography
Jonnie Penn is a New York Times Bestselling author, a Google Technology Policy Fellow, and a Rausing, Williamson and Lipton doctoral scholar studying the history and philosophy of artificial intelligence at the University of Cambridge. He is currently a visiting scholar in the STS department at MIT and a BKMLA Assembly Fellow at the MIT Media Lab and Harvard’s Berkman Kline Centre for Society and Internet, where he studies issues related to AI and Governance. He is the co-founder of The Buried Life, a popular youth movement and TV series syndicated in 70+ countries that asks, “What do you want to do before you die?” Jonnie volunteers on the IEEE’s Working Group on a Standard for Child and Student Data Governance (IEEE P7004). He hold degrees from the University of Cambridge and McGill University. He has spoken about the United Nations, House of Lords, and to Fortune-500
Talk Abstract
This talk introduces unexplored aspects from the history of artificial intelligence to inform contemporary debates regarding the benefits and limits of introducing machine learning and other AI tools into daily government operations. Solutions related to the modernisation of social protection systems are put forward to address ‘intelligence inequality’, a rapidly-maturing cousin of income inequality characterized by an extreme maldistribution of data (and access to data) rather than capital.