The founders of Open AI and Deepmind originally had grand visions in mind for their companies – to build superintelligent machines that would bring abundance to humanity and discover the true nature of our existence. Instead their creations enriched the world’s biggest companies and sparked an extraordinary arms race with an unknown future. Today the technology horizon seems to hold less promise for new abundance but rather emerging civilisation-scale risks from mass unemployment to weaponised misinformation.
Award-winning journalist Parmy Olson comes to Tyneside to share her research into the clandestine battle for supremacy in generative AI, featuring a number of the biggest names in tech such as Elon Musk, Larry Page, Satya Nadella and Peter Thiel. She’ll look at how we got here and what the future might hold for us.
Parmy Olson’s Bio
Parmy Olson is an accomplished journalist and author known for her insightful coverage of technology and business. As a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, she has provided in-depth analysis and commentary on the tech industry’s most pressing issues. Parmy is also the author of “We Are Anonymous,” a critically acclaimed book that explores the rise of the hacker collective Anonymous.
Since joining Bloomberg from the Wall Street Journal, much of Parmy’s research has focussed on the emergence of AI which has resulted in her upcoming Semptember 2024 book, “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race that will Change the World”.
