Dilemmas and Regulation of Delegation

AI systems are increasingly being developed to engage users in fluid conversation, show high degrees of user personalisation and play ever more human-like roles.

Systems, which we call Advanced AI Assistants, are being positioned as our friends and lovers, trusted expert advisors, therapists, teachers and PAs, as well as the future means of accessing and interacting with the internet and data.

Advanced AI Assistants could have profound implications for our politics, economy and society at large, bringing about a fundamental shift in the way that we interact with digital information, ideas and markets, colouring our relationships to ourselves and to others, and posing difficult questions about the status and role of human expertise.

The Ada Lovelace Institute invites you to a discussion of our ongoing work on this hugely consequential form of AI with confirmed panellists: Alex Lawrence-Archer (AWO), Tim Bond (Ipsos), Harry Farmer (Ada Lovelace Institute), Julia Smakman (Ada Lovelace Institute) and Max Von Thun (Open Markets Institute).

We will discuss:

• The major, systemic challenges posed by Advanced AI Assistants, including for democratic politics, market competition, mental health and wellbeing, public service provision and the regulation of professional expertise.

• The extent to which current laws and regulations are capable of addressing these challenges.

We will also explore potential paths forward, looking at what governments, industry and society need to ensure that the development and spread of Advanced AI Assistants is compatible with human agency and the public good.

The panel of discussion and Q&A will be followed by a drinks’ reception.

The event will take place at the Nuffield Foundation’s office, 100 St John Street, London, EC1M 4EH on the third floor of the building, accessible via lifts located next to the reception desk.

The nearest tube stations to our office are Farringdon and Barbican (Metropolitan, Circle and Hammersmith & City, Elizabeth lines). The nearest national railway station is Farringdon, where Thameslink can also be accessed.