Managing the Machines

Recorded July 11, 2018. A public lecture by Professor Genevieve
Bell, Director of the 3A Institute, Florence Violet McKenzieChair,
and a Distinguished Professor at the Australian National
University. Professor Bell who is described as an anthropologist,
technologist and futurist, is best known for her work at the
intersection of cultural practice and technology development. She
has spent over 15 years at Intel where she was promoted to Vice
President for Strategy and was also elected as a senior fellow, the
first female to achieve such a prestigious position in the company.
She now heads up a new institute at the Australian National
University called the Autonomy, Agency and Assurance (3A)
Institute, launched in September 2017 focusing on “building a new
applied science around the management of artificial intelligence,
data, technology and their impact on humanity’’. This is the
inaugural talk of a new public lecture series ‘What does it mean to
be Human?’ organised by the Trinity Long Room Hub and Trinity
Research and Innovation. In this high-profile lecture series,
experts from enterprise and education will reflect on what it means
to be human at the turn of the 21st century with the growing
influence of technology on the way we live, work and communicate.
Learn more at: https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/