Date and Time: Monday 24th November 2025, 18:00 – 19:00
Location: Wilkins Room (Staircase R)
“The Evitable Journey of Artificial Intelligence to Replace Humanity”
We call them servants. What if they are our heirs? If humanity is not the final form of intelligence, then are we merely the biological launchpad for our true successors?
On one hand, we will investigate scenarios not of metallic armies, but of silent, systemic obsolescence. A world where AI is the new apex predator in the cognitive niche—where it not only writes all the essays for our supervisions and summarises that pesky library book that might take days to read; but also dispenses justice, proves the theorems, prescribes the cultural narrative and redefines how homo sapiens interacts in love, sex and death. In this future, humanity is not exterminated; it becomes simply… irrelevant.
On the other hand, the talk will explore the ultimate catastrophic risks: advanced AI systems surpassing human-level intelligence and evading their creators’ control for their incomprehensible (to us, at least) purposes. We will move beyond clichéd debates on ‘alignment’ and ‘ethics’ to present a provocative framework of outcomes for how this “evitable journey” can be, and must be, rerouted before the servants lock the door from the inside.
