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SUMMARY:From Servants to Successors:  The Evitable Journey of Artificial I
 ntelligence to Replace Humanity - Demetrius Floudas  (Downing College)
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CONTACT:Demetrius Floudas
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*\n\nWe call them servants. What if they are our heir
 s? If humanity is not the final form of intelligence\, then are we merely 
 the biological launchpad for our true successors?\n\nOn one hand\, we will
  investigate scenarios not of metallic armies\, but of silent\, systemic o
 bsolescence. A world where AI is the new apex predator in the cognitive ni
 che—where it not only writes all  the essays for our supervisions and su
 mmarises that pesky library book that might take days to read\; but also d
 ispenses justice\,  proves the theorems\, prescribes the cultural narrativ
 e and redefines how homo sapiens interacts in love\, sex and death. In thi
 s future\, humanity is not exterminated\; it becomes simply... irrelevant.
 \n\nOn the other hand\, the talk will explore the ultimate catastrophic ri
 sks: advanced AI systems surpassing human-level intelligence and evading t
 heir creators’ control for their incomprehensible (to us\, at least) pur
 poses.  We will move beyond clichéd debates on 'alignment' and 'ethics' t
 o present a provocative framework of outcomes for how this "evitable journ
 ey" can be\, and must be\, rerouted before the servants lock the door from
  the inside.\n\n\n\n*About the speaker:*\n\n_Demetrius A. Floudas is a Vis
 iting Scholar in Law at Downing College._\n\n_He is an AI Expert at the Eu
 ropean Institute of Public Administration and will join the Cambridge Univ
 ersity Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence next month.   He h
 as recently been retained as Head of Engagement in preparing a UN-backed I
 nternational AI Risk Mitigation Treaty\, the first-of-its-kind Internation
 al Instrument globally.  He served as a member of the drafting Plenary and
  WG2+3 of EU AI Office’s Code of Practice for General-Purpose Artificial
  Intelligence (to come in force later in 2025). He has contributed policy-
 enhancing solutions to UNESCO Guidelines for Use of AI in Courts & Tribuna
 ls\, the OECD risk thresholds for advanced AI\, CNIL\, and others._\n\n_In
  Cambridge\, he is Visiting Scholar at the Leverhulme Centre for the Futur
 e of Intelligence\; Member of the AI@Cam (the University’s Artificial In
 telligence Interdisciplinary Unit)\, Visiting Scholar in Law at Downing Co
 llege\; Senior Adviser to the Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative\; and 
 Trustee of the University's Student Union._\n\n_As Afl. Professor at Imman
 uel Kant Baltic Federal University\, he has been lecturing on ‘AI Regula
 tion’ since 2022 - pre GPT-  making him one of the first academics on th
 e planet to design\, curate and deliver an AI Law module…_\n
LOCATION:The Wilkins Room\, Downing College\, Regent Street\, Cambridge CB
 2 1DQ
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