As intelligent systems increasingly perceive and decide on our behalf, questions of agency and accountability are no longer abstract. They are immediate, contested, and profoundly human. The governance of machines has become inseparable from the governance of societies.
This Oxford-style debate convenes established thinkers alongside bold next-generation voices to interrogate the shifting architecture of authority in the age of AI. Across generations, participants will challenge inherited assumptions about expertise, control, and responsibility, probing the ethical boundaries of algorithmic influence and the conditions under which human judgment must remain sovereign.
Designed for productive friction rather than consensus, the session invites candor and intellectual risk-taking. It is a space where legacy wisdom collides with future ambition and where the most uncomfortable questions are surfaced, not smoothed over. The aim is not resolution, but clarity about what is at stake as power migrates from institutions and individuals to systems that learn, adapt, and act at scale.
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