Dr Jonnie Penn, FRSA, is a historian of technology, #1 NYT bestselling author and technologist. He is Associate Teaching Professor of AI Ethics and Society at the University of Cambridge. Jonnie explores the Future of Work for Millennial and Post-Millennials in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He has served as an... Read more
Dr Jonnie Penn, FRSA, is a historian of technology, #1 NYT bestselling author and technologist. He is Associate Teaching Professor of AI Ethics and Society at the University of Cambridge.
Jonnie explores the Future of Work for Millennial and Post-Millennials in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He has served as an expert speaker at the United Nations, European Parliament, Council of Europe, Davos, and to the UK House of Lords, as well as for global non-profits and corporations. His thoughts on the direction of AI research have recently been featured in The Economist, IBM Think Leaders, PwC, and elsewhere.
Jonnie serves as a Faculty Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University; a Research Fellow and Teaching Associate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science; a Research Fellow at St. Edmund’s College; and an Associate Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
He was formerly a MIT Media Lab Assembly Fellow, Google Technology Policy Fellow, Fellow of the British National Academy of Writing and a popular broadcaster.
As a teenager, Jonnie co-founded The Buried Life youth movement, a community that asks, “What do you want to do before you die?” The project grew to encompass a cult-hit television series aired in seventy countries. He is currently based in Cambridge, UK.
AI and climate are on a collision course. Data centres will use 20% of global electricity by 2030. How can we allocate resources that do not renew on human timescales?
For centuries it was biology that made us sick. Now it is our lifestyles. This talk considers the iatrogenic qualities of digital technologies. They harm us even as we use them to be healthier.
‘Protected time’ gave us modern science. In an era that has forgotten how to rest, rest becomes a form of innovation. This talk introduces Dr Penn’s creation of the Rest Institute.
It took four hundred years for the benefits of the printing press to reach the masses. Will the same be true of AI?
A post-war world order premised on thick rules is giving way to one premised on thin rules, or ‘algorithmic thinking.’ This invites a reweaving of our social fabric in ways that AI cannot fake.
Young people see dating apps as stale. Digital fatigue has set in. What does analog culture mean for our supposedly digital future?
Invent the ship and you invent the shipwreck. Invent AI and you invent… what? This talk tests claims of an AI-led ‘intelligence explosion’ against risks to democracy, markets, and wellbeing.
How much digital is enough? In a moment marked by burnout and mental anguish, rest can redefine one’s legacy, approach to parenting, and understanding of wealth.
2024 will see 80+ elections across 75+ countries. 3.65 billion people will see thei