Being Human When Digital: Artificial Intelligence and Hope

Artificial Intelligence is celebrated, speculated upon and warned against, all the time, everywhere. However you feel about this technology, you can’t ignore it and neither should you. The Atlantic Institute is looking at Artificial Intelligence (AI): as presenting both threat and hope, in a two-part series running in November 2025 and February 2026.

Having examined the ethical threats posed by AI with Laura Bates and Nasser Eledroos, the Institute now turn toward possibility. At a live Zoom event on 16 February at 15:00 GMT, hosted by the Atlantic Institute XR Lab in Oxford, with an invitation to join us in person, we will explore how AI can become a force for hope, helping to build kinder, fairer, and healthier societies for all.

The Atlantic Institute are delighted to bring together Kay Firth Butterfield, author of Co-existing with AI, CEO of Tech for Good Advisory and the former Head of Artificial Intelligence at the World Economic Forum, with Fola Adeleke, Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity and Executive Director of the Global Centre of AI Governance. Alongside the Institute’s XR Lead, Alice Wroe, they will explore the role Artificial Intelligence can play in advancing social justice, and consider how we, as a community of hope and action, can engage with this technology to ensure it serves equity, dignity, and the common good.