Millennium Technology Prize Forum 2024
Intelligence at a Crossroads: Machines or Humans?
Intelligence at a crossroads: machines or humans?
Rapid advances in technology have the potential to transform our lives and world beyond imagination. New disruptions create new opportunities and new challenges: how to make best use of technology without losing control?
Time: 30 October 2024 at 9:00-15:00
Place: Dipoli, Espoo, Finland
On site by invitation only. Stream available globally.
wednesday 30 October 2024
| Time | PROGRAM | |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Coffee and networking | |
| 09:00 | UTOPIA OR DYSTOPIA? What can we learn from science fiction that explores the incredible potential of technology? Is the technology of the real world leading us towards a utopia – or a dystopia? | |
| 10.30 | RADICAL TECHNOLOGIES What are the emerging technologies that will define our future? From artificial intelligence to advanced biotech to quantum computing, what tools do we have at our disposal to reach a utopia? | |
| 11.30 | Millennium Young Scientist Contest READ MORE | |
| 13:30 | HUMANS IN CHARGE How can we foster trust in technology? How can we ensure that humanity is able to control the technology it creates? | |
| 15:00 | End of Forum |
Speakers
Professor
Sabrina Maniscalco
Quantum Information, Computing and Logic, University of Helsinki
Bio & more
Professor
Minna Ruckenstein
University of Helsinki
Bio & more
More speakers to be announced
Host of the event
Jason Palmer
Jason Palmer, host of our Millennium Forums 2021 and 2022, returns to be your guide to the programme.
Palmer hosts “The Intelligence”, a daily news podcast published by The Economist since 2019. He began his work for The Economist in 2014 as a science and technology correspondent. Before that, he was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT and a science and technology reporter at the BBC. He has a doctorate from Imperial College London and is a former physicist who specialized in high-power laser development and ultrafast spectroscopy.
