This book conference is part of the Telegraph Oxford Literary Festival 2025, the Oxford Martin School is the Ideas Festival partner.
Ethicist and editor of a new collection of essays on the morality of artificial intelligence (AI) David Edmonds leads a discussion with contributors to the volume, economist Professor Daniel Susskind, and philosophers and ethicists Professor Carissa Véliz and Linda Eggert.
Edmonds is a distinguished fellow at the Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, author of works of philosophy and co-host of the show Bits of Philosophy podcast. He brought together a team of leading philosophers to write about the implications of AI, including self and identity, health and insurance, politics and manipulation, the environment, work, law , police and defense.
Susskind, research professor of economics at King’s College London, senior research associate at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford and co-author of the bestselling book The future of professionswrote an essay Work and meaning: a challenge for the economy.
Véliz, Oxford Martin Fellow of the Oxford Martin Program on Ethical Web and Data Architecture; Associate Professor of Philosophy at the AI Ethics Institute and author of Privacy is power And The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillancewrote an essay, Lose skills.
Eggert, an early career researcher in philosophy at the Institute for AI Ethics, where she works on moral and political philosophy and the philosophy of law, wrote her essay on Autonomous Weapon Systems and Human Rights.
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