Postgraduate students, fellows, staff and faculty from any discipline are welcome. This group aims to foster frequent interdisciplinary critical dialogue across Oxford and beyond about the political impacts of emerging technologies. Please contact Elisabeth Siegel at elisabeth.siegel@politics.ox.ac.uk or Brian Kot at brian.kot@politics.ox.ac.uk in advance to participate or with any questions. Remote attendance is possible, but in-person attendance is prioritized (and provided refreshment). Discussion topics will be finalized and optional readings will be sent out a week in advance. You do not currently have to be affiliated with the University of Oxford to attend and participate in discussions.

About the speaker: Haydn is co-Chair of the Global Politics of AI Project and a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and has been a Research Associate and Academic Project Manager at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk for the past seven years. In that time the Centre tripled in size, and he advised the UK, US, and Singaporean governments; the EU, UN and OECD; and leading technology companies. He has over 40 publications with over 2,100 citations, including on climate change, pandemics, and societal collapse, but most of his work is on the security implications of artificial intelligence (AI). Previously he worked in UK politics as the Senior Parliamentary Researcher to a Labour MP in the Shadow Cabinet and was seconded to several general election and referendum campaigns. He is a DPhil/PhD Candidate in International Relations and has an MSc in Politics Research and a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), all from the University of Oxford. His thesis ‘Bombs, Bugs, Bytes and Bots’ is on the history and future of arms control – what lessons from the varied success of arms control regimes for nuclear, biological and cyber weapons can be applied to international governance of artificial intelligence?