The CogX Podcast: Recent Episodes
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How are companies utilising technology to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges? What are the latest developments in the world of AI and emerging technology? How is technology changing the world that we live in? Join CognitionX co-founders, Charlie Muirhead and Tabitha Goldstaub, and the CognitionX team in navigating the complex world of AI and Emerging Tech. Tune in to hear world-class talks, presentations, and interviews as we look to answer some of today’s most pressing questions.
With GDPR just over 1 year old, this episode gives an early assessment of AI regulation. Simon McDougall reports from the Information Commissioner's Office while Professor Sandra Wachter highlights the potential that reasonable inference holds for regulating big data. A lively panel discussion follows.
Kathryn Corrick Corrick, Wales and Partners LLP Simon McDougall; Information Commissioner's Office Dr. Sandra Wachter; The Alan Turing Institute Roger Taylor; Chair, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation Lord Tim Clement Jones; All-Party Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence
This episode looks at dirty data; the practice of data being used to participate in discriminatory practices. Data experts, come together to discuss the consequences of algorithmic bias and how it leads data to be misused.
Includes Content by:
Marc Warner, Faculty Sarah Drinkwater, Omidyar Network Keith Porcaro, Digital Public Christopher Markou, University of Cambridge Rashida Richardson, AI Now Institute
AI governance and policy experts De Kai Wu and Joanna Bryson have worked in the field for over 30 years. Here they sit down to discuss approaches AI governance. How do we govern AI in an interconnected world? What's the inside story on the dissolution of Google shortlived AI’s ethical council. And how do we merge rules-based and virtues-based ethics systems to govern AI.
This session brings together thought leaders on data rights to discuss the impact of data on individuals and on society.
Featuring:
Martin Tisne, Luminate Sana Khareghani, Office for Artificial Intelligence Gus Hosein, Privacy International Sylvie Delacroix, University of Birmingham Jeni Tennison, Open Data Institute
This session focuses on AI education and the importance of preparing the next generation for a future which involves AI. Each person explains what their organisations are doing, and they point to the narrative problem surrounding AI and how the view of AI must be changed to encourage more people to get involved with the discipline. Throughout the talk the panellists touch on the Sustainable Development Goals specifically pointing to the importance of the quality of education, mentioning that AI education must be widely available for all.
With Irina Kofman, Facebook AI Mike Penrose, Unicef UK Tess Posner, AI4ALL Kate Jarvis, The Careers & Enterprise Company Teemu Roos, University of Helsinki
CogX Special: Building the Future of AI Hardware with Nigel Toon from Graphcore.
Nigel Toon (CEO and Co-Founder of Graphcore) takes the stage to discuss the future of AI, raising ideas on the progression of AI hardware through time and the ability for greater things in the foreseeable future.
Improving the Customer Experience. Presentation given at CogX 2019, by Josh Bottomley; Head of Digital, Data and Development, HSBC.
Azeem Azhar presents the audience with four economists who are of the “moonshot” that are leading the path of rethinking our government and our economy. This episode features a panel discussion that was preceded by a number of brief keynotes.
Kate Raworth discussed the idea that global developments should have both a social foundation (maintaining basic human rights) and an ecological ceiling (involving the drastic environmental change caused by industry), using a “donut-shaped diagram” to present these ideas.
Mariana Mazzucato highlighted the fact that in order to succeed in any sort of revolution, it is vital to understand the dynamics of investment and ensure that as an economy we become more mission orienteering and interdependent with other sectors.
Bill Janeway raised the question “do we also require US participation?”, and lastly, Jeffrey Sachs discussed the idea that it is crucial to realise and take our global commitments seriously in order to gain benefits.
In this episode, the panel raises questions over the mismatch between the power of states and the power of corporations, and how we get politics to support and adapt to changes.
This episode features a keynote speech by Matthew Gould, CEO of NHSX, the new unit driving forward the digital transformation of health and social care. The keynote looks into the digitisation of the health industry and the opportunities and challenges that this presents.
Astro Teller, Captain of Moonshots at X, and Julie Hanna, Senior Advisor at X and Executive Chair of the Board of Kiva, discuss how to create value and scale radical ideas on a global level. The episode begins with an overview on the work done by X, promoting businesses and helping the world become great, despite not necessarily selling product to consumers. Astro Teller uses a variety analogies ranging from retrieving balloons to monkeys which provides an insight into the work done by X and how it benefits the world in the long term. The episode also touches on the issues surrounding diversity and inclusion in the sector with the further use of examples case studies giving a better perspective into the AI world.
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, opens up the CogX festival by discussing the future of London’s technology sector, highlighting the fact that London is and will always be open to businesses.
Mr Khan calls on the new prime minister to give developments in AI the attention that they deserve and insists that the public has the right to be heard and the right for democratic leaders to guide them along this delicate path.
During the Q&A with Tabitha Goldstaub, issues surrounding a lack of diversity in the world of AI are brought up, with The Mayor calling for more females working in the sector as well as more people from minority backgrounds.