Speaker
Stephanie Hare
Dr Stephanie Hare is a researcher, broadcaster and speaker on technology, politics, and history. Her work includes research on biometrics and privacy, and how big data affects our civil liberties and human rights. Selected as a part of the landmark BBC Expert Women initiative, she has a regular radio column that goes out on the BBC World Service’s World Business Report and BBC Radio’s 4 Business Daily.
Stephanie has worked as a Principal Director at Accenture Research, as a deployment strategist at Palantir, a Senior Analyst for Western Europe at Oxford Analytica, a consultant at Accenture, and has taught history at Oxford, where she held the Alistair Horne Visiting Fellowship at St Antony’s College.

Dr Stephanie Hare is a researcher, broadcaster and speaker on technology, politics, and history. Her work includes research on biometrics and privacy, and how big data affects our civil liberties and human rights. Selected as a part of the landmark BBC Expert Women initiative, she has a regular radio column that goes out on the BBC World Service’s World Business Report and BBC Radio’s 4 Business Daily.
Stephanie has worked as a Principal Director at Accenture Research, as a deployment strategist at Palantir, a Senior Analyst for Western Europe at Oxford Analytica, a consultant at Accenture, and has taught history at Oxford, where she held the Alistair Horne Visiting Fellowship at St Antony’s College.
Stephanie Hare Videos

The accurate, the perfect and the dangerous
The potential and the threat of data

Technology is not neutral
Technology cannot exist without ethics

Fact-checking the fact-checkers
Is it possible for fact checking to be impartial?
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 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?

The accurate, the perfect and the dangerous
The potential and the threat of data

How oceans shaped the world
Saving the heart of our planet

Zanna Clay | In-depth Interview
On animal empathy, evolution, and beyond

AI, emotions and the tech evolution
Building a better world around AI

The dawn of machine consciousness with Joscha Bach

The dream and danger of AI
How to tame AI

How to live forever
Radical life extension' technology

Science alone won't solve climate change
Tackling the climate emergency

Capitalism and the climate
Our planet and the economy

AI and the end of humanity
Does AI change what it means to be human?

Digital Apes
Technology as a force for good

The next environmental crisis
Are our current solutions just a short term fix?

AI and the story of the universe
How AI will help us make scientific discoveries

How volcanoes could change the world
The power and promise of geoengineering