“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last.”
Stephen Hawking
We are told that AI is the future of everything as much as we are told it will be humanity’s downfall. Where does the truth lie?
Patchen Barss is a Toronto-based science journalist, author, and speaker. His acclaimed biography, The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the Cost of Genius , was a New Yorker and Globe and Mail best book of 2024, and named one of the top science and technology books of that year by Kirkus Reviews, The Financial Times, and The Telegraph. Dr Tara Logan Buckley is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Director of a national digital mental health service. She holds a postgraduate diploma in AI and is a frequent media commentator on what our growing relationships with AI reveal about human psychology, connection and wellbeing. Steve McCarthy is an Irish designer and illustrator whose debut The Wilderness , won the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards 2023 honour award for illustration and was shortlisted for a Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration.
In conversation with Roland Gulliver.