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AI: A Guide for the Perplexed

03/09/2025
59 min
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Professor Richard Susskind, a leading expert on the impact of artificial intelligence, challenges us to rethink its role in society. In his accessible, non-technical guide, How to Think About AI, Susskind draws on his extensive experience working with AI since the 1980s. As the world’s most cited author on the future of legal services and a 25-year technology adviser to the Lord Chief Justice, he positions ChatGPT and generative AI as just the latest chapter in an unfolding story, arguing that navigating the benefits and risks of AI is the defining challenge of our time. In conversation with neuroscientist, writer, and The Royal Institution’s Director of Science Engagement Daniel Glaser.

An event from Jewish Book Week 2025.

About the speakers

Richard Susskind

Professor Richard Susskind is an author, Special Envoy for Justice and AI to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, President of the Society for Computers and Law, and formerly Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
Daniel Glaser

Daniel Glaser is Director of Science Engagement at the Royal Institution, was a Winston Churchill Fellow in 2019 and Founding Director of Science Gallery London. Image © Paul Wilkinson

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AI: A Guide for the Perplexed

03/09/2025
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59 min

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Richard Susskind

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Professor Richard Susskind is an author, Special Envoy for Justice and AI to the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, President of the Society for Computers...

Daniel Glaser

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Daniel Glaser is Director of Science Engagement at the Royal Institution, was a Winston Churchill Fellow in 2019 and Founding Director of Science Gallery...