2025 Session
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Thursday, October 29, 2026
IS AI GOING TO KILL US ALL?
Artificial Intelligence
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10:00 am
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10:40 am
29 Oct 2026
Tobacco Dock, London
Tobacco Dock, London
Between utopian promises and existential warnings, it can be difficult to separate genuine AI risk from speculation. This debate brings together contrasting perspectives on safety, power, environmental impact and human control. How worried should we be, who should be accountable and what action is justified before the most serious predictions become possible?
Professor of Philosophy & Ethics Lead In Safe AI Systems, University of York - Spokesperson Pull the plug
At the University of York my primary responsibilities are as Convenor of the MA in Applied Ethics and Governance of Data Privacy and as Ethics Lead for the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe AI Systems (SAINTS). My purely philosophical research currently focuses on the structure and justification of moral theory. I have also written, spoken and given expert opinion on digital states, digital sovereignty, existential risk, and deepfakes. I am an active campaigner for greater democratic control over the way AI is deployed in our society, with particular attention to the social and environmental harms of the UK strategy, and a spokesperson for the campaign group Pull the Plug.
Hameed Adigun is Co-Founder of Black AI Futures (BAIF), the UK's first Black-led AI for Good Network, and runs Aivian Ltd, an AI consultancy collective and has built RonuNest, an immersive simulation learning platform for workforce training that proves competency.
BAIF is a parliamentary initiative that brings community lived evidence into the rooms where AI policy is made, to keep AI fair and equitable, not built for the few. Supported by Dawn Butler MP, Vice Chair of the AI APPG.
Hameed works at the intersection of AI policy, community advocacy, and commercial delivery, making sure the communities AI affects first are the ones shaping what comes next.
