AI: Opportunity, Risk and the Choices Ahead

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, creating extraordinary opportunities while raising urgent questions about safety, security, and responsible use.

Join us for AI: Opportunity, Risk and the Choices Ahead, a public conversation exploring AI’s rapidly evolving capabilities, risks and implications for business, government and society.

The evening will bring together experts for a panel discussion, audience Q&A and networking reception.

This event is open to everyone.

Speakers:

• ​Richard Florizone, Special Advisor to the President and Provost on Global Futures at the University of Waterloo
• Ann Fitz-Gerald, Director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs
• Maura R. Grossman, Research Professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, cross-appointed to the School of Public Health Sciences, at the University of Waterloo
• Jochen Koenemann, Dean of the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics and Professor in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization
• Jimmy Lin, Professor and David R. Cheriton Chair in Software Systems in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo
• Bessma Momani, Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation

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