AI and Society Seminar Series: in construction for 2027!

These seminars consider AI's social impacts in a range of areas, and discuss how AI can best be overseen to maximise positive impacts and minimise negative ones.

They are open to anyone who is interested in attending. We don't presuppose any technical background.. if we present AI systems, we do it 'from scratch', in ways that should be accessible to everyone.

Discussing AI's social impacts is a very interdisciplinary task, and our speakers and participants come from many different backgrounds, in academia, government, industry and NGOs.

The series organiser is Ali Knott (ali.knott@vuw.ac.nz): please email Ali if you'd like to be added to the mailing list.

Details of previous years' seminars can be found here: 2023 (22 seminars), 2024 (24 seminars), 2025 (23 seminars), 2026 (22 seminars).

Seminars are at 4:00-5:30pm.

Trimester 1

Date Venue Speaker Title/topic  
26 Feb Rutherford House, RH1209/1210      
5 March Rutherford House, RH1209/1210      
12 March Rutherford House, RH1209/1210      
19 March TBA      
26 March   Good Friday No seminar!  
2 April   Mid-trimester break No seminar!  
9 April   Mid-trimester break No seminar!  
16 April Rutherford House, RH1209/1210      
23 April Rutherford House, RH1209/1210      
30 April TBA      
7 May TBA      
14 May Rutherford House, RH1209/1210      
21 May Rutherford House, RH1209/1210      
28 May TBA      

Trimester 2