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In this session Roddy Millar discusses with Prof Sejnowski how organizations, and importantly us ‘humans’ within those organizations, can best work with AI as it advances with amazing speed into the every corner and aspect of our work.

While it used to be labourers who feared technology would steal their jobs, it is now the knowledge workers who are under threat. But just as the advent of ploughs, looms and steam engines actually grew the world of work in the 18th century – AI may well do something similar in the 21st century for all our benefit.

Terry reminds us how we need to be informed and aware of the options and best practices to optimize using AI.

Ideas for Leaders is always seeking out polymaths, who can bring a variety of perspectives and insights to new contexts – and in Prof Sejnowski we have certainly achieved that.

Terrence Sejnowski is the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and is the director of the Crick-Jacobs center for theoretical and computational biology. He has performed pioneering research in neural networks and computational neuroscience.

Sejnowski is also Professor of Biological Sciences and adjunct professor in the departments of neurosciences, psychology, cognitive science, computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he is co-director of the Institute for Neural Computation.

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