Recent, dramatic advancement in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) raise a host of ethical questions about the development and deployment of AI systems. Some of these are questions long recognized as of fundamental moral concern, and which may occur in particularly acute forms with AI—matters of distributive justice, discrimination, social control, political manipulation, the conduct of warfare, personal privacy, and the concentration of economic power.

Recent, dramatic advancement in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) raise a host of ethical questions about the development and deployment of AI systems. Some of these are questions long recognized as of fundamental moral concern, and which may occur in particularly acute forms with AI—matters of distributive justice, discrimination, social control, political manipulation, the conduct of warfare, personal privacy, and the concentration of economic power.

Recent, dramatic advancement in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) raise a host of ethical questions about the development and deployment of AI systems. Some of these are questions long recognized as of fundamental moral concern, and which may occur in particularly acute forms with AI—matters of distributive justice, discrimination, social control, political manipulation, the conduct of warfare, personal privacy, and the concentration of economic power.

Ukrainian scholar and priest Cyril Hovorun explains how Orthodoxy is shaping politics and political theology in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Over the last century, politics across the world have been remade through the visual technology of screens. From early Soviet cinema trains and ‘agit steamers’ to YouTube videos today, revolutionaries have believed that film, as an easily reproducible and mobile medium of dramatic narratives, offers a powerful way of impressing new political visions onto the emotional indexes of diverse groups of people.

What are the persistent gender barriers that continue to shape and exacerbate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic?

By drawing attention to the interrelation of vaccine prioritisation and gender in the global roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine, this event aims to provide a data-driven approach to understanding current vaccine inequities and the role of gender in shaping them.

The next in the Blavatnik School's series exploring the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine will bring together Dr Beata Javorick, Dan Baer and Professor Stefan Dercon to examine the economic consequences of the war. The panel will be moderated by Professor Ngaire Woods.