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SUMMARY:From Servants to Successors:  The Evitable Journey of Artificial I
 ntelligence to Replace Humanity - Demetrius Floudas  (Downing College)
DTSTART:20251124T180000Z
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CONTACT:D. A. Floudas
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nWe call them servants. What if they are our heir
 s? If humanity is not the final form of intelligence\, then are we merely 
 the biological launchpad for our true successors?\n\nOn one hand\, we will
  investigate scenarios not of metallic armies\, but of silent\, systemic o
 bsolescence. A world where AI is the new apex predator in the cognitive ni
 che—where it not only writes all  the essays for our supervisions and su
 mmarises that pesky library book that might take days to read\; but also d
 ispenses justice\,  proves the theorems\, prescribes the cultural narrativ
 e and redefines how homo sapiens interacts in love\, sex and death. In thi
 s future\, humanity is not exterminated\; it becomes simply... irrelevant.
 \n\nOn the other hand\, the talk will explore the ultimate catastrophic ri
 sks: advanced AI systems surpassing human-level intelligence and evading t
 heir creators’ control for their incomprehensible (to us\, at least) pur
 poses.  We will move beyond clichéd debates on 'alignment' and 'ethics' t
 o present a provocative framework of outcomes for how this "evitable journ
 ey" can be\, and must be\, rerouted before the servants lock the door from
  the inside.\n\n\n\n*About the speaker:*\n\n_Demetrius A. Floudas is a Vis
 iting Scholar in Law at Downing College._\n\n_He is an AI Expert at the Eu
 ropean Institute of Public Administration and strategy Of Counsel to the C
 o-Chair of the European Parliament’s Working Group on Artificial Intelli
 gence.   He has recently been retained as Head of Engagement in preparing 
 a UN-backed International AI Risk Mitigation Treaty\, the first-of-its-kin
 d International Instrument globally.  He served as a member of the draftin
 g Plenary and WG2+3 of EU AI Office’s Code of Practice for General-Purpo
 se Artificial Intelligence (to come in force later in 2025). He has contri
 buted policy-enhancing solutions to UNESCO Guidelines for Use of AI in Cou
 rts & Tribunals\, the OECD risk thresholds for advanced AI\, CNIL\, and ot
 hers._\n\n_In Cambridge\, he is Visiting Scholar at the Leverhulme Centre 
 for the Future of Intelligence\; Member of the AI@Cam (the University’s 
 Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Unit)\, Visiting Scholar in Law 
 at Downing College\; Senior Adviser to the Cambridge Existential Risk Init
 iative\; and Trustee of the University's Student Union._\n\n_As Afl. Profe
 ssor at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University\, he has been lecturing on
  ‘AI Regulation’ since 2022 - pre GPT-  making him one of the first ac
 ademics on the planet to design\, curate and deliver an AI Law module…_\
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LOCATION:The Wilkins Room\, Downing College\, Regent Street\, Cambridge CB
 2 1DQ
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