Join Dr James Manyika, Senior Vice President of Technology and Society at Google, and Philippa Webb, Professor of Public International Law at the Blavatnik School, for a conversation on ‘how to get Artificial Intelligence right’. 

They will explore the challenges across the AI pipeline, focusing on implications for human rights, democracy, and public trust. How can humans align with technology that is not limited by human cognition? How can law and policy on AI be anticipatory and not just reactive? How can companies and countries work together on AI’s development and governance?

Speaker biographies

James Manyika is the Senior Vice President of Technology and Society at Google. Before his current role at Google, James served for 13 years as Chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute. He is also the vice chair of President Biden’s National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee and co-chair of the UN High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. Since 2021, James has been a Visiting Professor at the Blavatnik School.

Philippa Webb is Professor of Public International Law at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Fellow of Exeter College. Her research spans international dispute settlement and human rights, including fair trials, free speech, and the prohibition of genocide and modern slavery. She is a member of the Board of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, the Public International Law Advisory Panel of the British Institute of International & Comparative Law, and an advisor to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States.