Speaker
Joanna Bryson
Joanna Bryson is a professor at Hertie School in Berlin specialising in artificial intelligence, ethics and collabritive cognition. Her research focusses on the impact of technology on human cooperation and AI governance. Her work appears in a number of venues from online forums such as Reddit to academic journals and publications.
Currently, she advises NGOs, governments and transnational agnecies. Her work includes 'Is There an AI Cold War?' and 'Robots Should Be Slaves'. She has delivered numerous talks and lectures that are available to watch online.

Joanna Bryson is a professor at Hertie School in Berlin specialising in artificial intelligence, ethics and collabritive cognition. Her research focusses on the impact of technology on human cooperation and AI governance. Her work appears in a number of venues from online forums such as Reddit to academic journals and publications.
Currently, she advises NGOs, governments and transnational agnecies. Her work includes 'Is There an AI Cold War?' and 'Robots Should Be Slaves'. She has delivered numerous talks and lectures that are available to watch online.
Joanna Bryson Videos

Human justice and machine intelligence
An interview with Professor Joanna Bryson

Dreams, delusions and data
Is Big Data just marketing hype?

Memes all the way down
Is Dawkins' concept useful?
More Videos

What Machines Can't Do
Will computers ever match human intelligence?

Corruption and Climate Change
Piers Corbyn | We misunderstood climate change

Humans versus Nature
Are humans part of nature or a hostile enemy?

Blind Data
The secrets behind compatibility science

March of the Machines
Is AI a threat to mankind?

The World in Our Hands
Rationality and climate change

The Puzzle of Progress
Has technology brought us the good life?

The Dark Side of Environmentalism
Are we just trying to repent of our consumerism?

Mind Machines
The future of AI

James Lovelock: Creativity in Science & Gaia Theory
The life of a lone scientist

What We Don't Know About CO2
The science of climate change

Can We Control AI?
Nigel Shadbolt | The right questions to ask on AI

Is Digital Thinking Different?
The internet revolution & the human brain

Climate Change and Britain’s Future
Huhne predicts wars and violence

How to Thrive in a Digital Age

Creative Robots
How to make an inventive bot

The Habits of Nature
Do natural laws evolve over time?

Genes, Memes and Temes

The Myth of Scarcity
What is the future of sustainable farming?

The Fifth Crime

Designing Life

Nine Million Steps in Solitude
What it’s like to walk the Amazon

Staying Human in Cyberspace
Mindfulness in cyberspace

The Internet is Not a Waffle Iron Connected to a Fax Machine

Global Overhaul
Rupert Read | Why going green matters

Future Storm
Where will lightning strike next?

Why Trolls Matter
The threat to 'polite' society

Rise of the Machines
AI: a science fiction fantasy?

My Avatar, Myself
How to extend yourself into the virtual

Touching Cyberspace
Back to the physical

The quantum age
Curt Jaimungal interviews Michio Kaku

The technology trap
Tech giants and our obsessive behaviour

The values of AI
Should we let AI make decisions for us?

The psychology of AI
An interview with Isabel Millar

Extinction and Renewal
Are we facing the Sixth Great Mass Extinction?

AI, Google, and the fight for culture with Timothy Nguyen
Mathematics vs Art

Human justice and machine intelligence
An interview with Professor Joanna Bryson

The AI Apocalypse
Is AI as dangerous as we think?

Scientific freedom
An interview with Craig Callender

The danger and promise of the algorithm
How algorithms control our lives

The Anthropocene is bigger than climate change
Renewable energy is not enough

The AI illusion
What does the future really have in store?

AI is a mirror on humanity
Humanity's non-human reflection

In search of a cleaner world
Is green energy even possible?

The AI enigma
Is artificial intelligence a threat?

Who's afraid of the big, bad data?
Big data as a force for good

Profit, planet, and pretence
Can capitalism solve the climate crisis?

Science is broken
An interview with Helen Czerski

Mind over matter
The potential of mind-computer interface technology

The consciousness test
Is AI sentient?