Date: 18 November 2026
Time: 10:00-10:45
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online
Research seminar with Prof. Dr. Dr. (h.c) Joanna J Bryson. Joanna Bryson is an academic recognised for broad expertise on intelligence, its nature, and its consequences. Holding two degrees each in psychology and AI (BA Chicago, MSc & MPhil Edinburgh, PhD MIT), she is since 2020 the Professor of Ethics and Technology at Hertie School, in Berlin, where she was hired as one of the founding professors of their Centre for Digital Governance. In 2025, she received an honorary doctorate from Université de Louvain for contributions to transparency and accountability in AI and robotics.
Abstract
The intelligence explosion is the predicted consequence of systems that learn how to learn, creating exponential on exponential improvement. Looking at existing cases of such evolvability (rather than projecting them all into the future), we can find better solutions to many questions of not just technology regulation but also human morality.
