Future Shocks: Rogue Technology

January 25, 2018 09:15

AI-piloted drones and biotech breakthroughs could wipe out global fish stocks. What if technology was used to annihilate plants and animals that underpin ecosystems and our global food security?

Explore the possible, plausible and probable impacts of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This session was developed in partnership with Wired.

This session will be livestreamed on TopLink and the Forum website. Please arrive 15 minutes early, as the doors will be closed at the scheduled time.

Speakers:

Marc Benioff

Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Salesforce

Mary Cummings

Director, Mason Autonomy and Robotics Center, George Mason University

Marcos Souza

Nicholas Thompson

Chief Executive Officer, The Atlantic

Peter Thomson

United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean, United Nations

Feng Zhang

James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)