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SUMMARY:Dr Eleanor Drage – What If We Got AI Right?
DESCRIPTION:We’re confused about AI: what it is\, and where it’s leading us – whether into a utopia or an apocalypse. Yet these obsessions thwart efforts to make meaningful change in an industry with very real problems. \n\n\n\nHere\, Dr Eleanor Drage\, one of the world’s leading AI ethicists\, unpicks the culture and ideas that drive the AI arms race\, from billionaires trying to cheat death to biased police algorithms and state capture by big tech. \n\n\n\nWe need new language and new ideas to re-determine what AI is for and how we should use it. Only by bringing feminism\, reparative justice and climate politics into the debate can we create a better future with machines. \n\n\n\nDr Eleanor Drage is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. One of the UK’s leading AI ethicists\, her work has been covered by the BBC\, the Guardian\, Telegraph and Forbes\, and she frequently speaks on radio and at AI conferences. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/dr-eleanor-drage-what-if-we-got-ai-right/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Ferdinand Addis – Conquest: The Roman Invasion of Britain
DESCRIPTION:An epic\, visceral history of the Romans in Britain\, from Caesar’s first invasion attempt in 55 BC to the fall of the Roman Empire\, by the author of Rome: Eternal City. \n\n\n\nBringing together archaeology\, anthropology\, geology and history\, Addis paints a vivid portrait of what life was like for Roman and Briton during these centuries\, and examines how the face of Britain was changed in ways that can still be felt today. Britain wasn’t conquered in a day. Caesar invaded twice\, but didn’t try to complete a conquest of the island. It was only when Claudius and his legions arrived in AD 43 that true colonization was possible. Forty years later\, almost the whole of southern Britain was under Roman control\, where it stayed until the final decline of the empire\, the weakness of the colony’s defences and the quarrels of Roman generals brought the experiment to an end. Piecing together evidence from the often-propagandistic Roman literary sources – including the writings of Caesar\, Tacitus and Livy – and making brilliant use of archaeological and anthropological research\, Addis paints a vivid portrait of Roman and British life both in prehistoric times and in the first century AD. He brings the violence and intrigues of British tribal life into vivid relief\, but also evokes the ways in which these diverse peoples lived\, their monumental burial sites\, their customs\, their trade with continental Europe\, their military organization and the kinds of war they practiced. Conquest is an exploration of the workings of empire at the deepest level\, revealing how the struggle between Roman and Briton was fought on battlefields and in books\, in forts and fields\, between clashing visions of humanity\, and rival gods. From Caesar’s first landing at the white chalk cliffs of the English Channel to Boudicca’s rebellion at Camulodnum\, to legionaries darning their socks on Hadrian’s Wall\, Conquest tells the Roman occupation of Britain as a story of domination and resistance\, of cultures colliding and entwining\, and of the slow transformation of a landscape and its people. \n\n\n\nFerdinand Addis read classics at Oxford\, before embarking on a career as a journalist and author. His critically acclaimed 2018 book Rome: Eternal City was a Times Book of the Year. He lives in London with his wife and daughter. \n\n\n\nTickets £14.00 (£10.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/ferdinand-addis-conquest-the-roman-invasion-of-britain/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Jeremy Hunt – Can We Be Rich Again?
DESCRIPTION:Is Britain stuck in a doom loop of higher debt and higher taxes? Or can we fix the British economy?Jeremy Hunt argues that getting out of Britain’s low growth is a solvable problem\, and that we should approach the country’s economic future with optimism. Hunt asks the key questions: How deliverable are the changes we need by a Labour\, Conservative or Reform government? How do we get the economy growing despite dangerous levels of debt? How do we sell long term reforms when our leaders have so little political capital? But countering pessimism needs solutions not just assertions\, and they need to be realistic – plans that politicians can actually deliver in a democratic system and the majority of the electorate can get behind. \n\n\n\nJeremy Hunt was elected Conservative MP for South West Surrey in 2005. He was first appointed Secretary of State for Health in September 2012\, then served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from July 2018 to July 2019\, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from October 2022 to July 2024. Before his election as an MP\, Jeremy ran his own educational publishing business\, Hotcourses. He also set up a charity to help AIDS orphans in Africa in which he continues to play an active role.  \n\n\n\nTickets £16.00 (£12.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/jeremy-hunt-can-we-be-rich-again/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Adult
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SUMMARY:Kathy Lette – The Sisterhood Rules
DESCRIPTION:The Sisterhood Rules: \n\n\n\n\nNever let a man come between you\n\n\n\nShare all your secrets\n\n\n\nLive life to the fullest – girls just wanna have fun\n\n\n\n\nFor twin sisters Isabel and Verity\, the sisterhood rules were shattered when Verity had an affair with Izzy’s husband. Unforgivable\, right? Devastated by her sister’s betrayal\, Izzy casts Verity into social Siberia. \n\n\n\nBut when their mother goes missing\, Verity and Izzy are forced to come together again to find her. And then the estranged sisters’ problems only get bigger. Their mother has a new younger lover and where there’s a will. he’d clearly like to be in it. \n\n\n\nCan they stop their mother making a dreadful mistake? And in doing so find a way to bury the pain of the past? \n\n\n\nFull of laugh-out-loud humour and devastating pathos\, Kathy Lette’s brilliant new novel takes us on a roller-coaster ride which proves that from pain comes healing\, from honesty comes forgiveness\, and that nothing is more important than your sisters.Kathy Lette is a celebrated and outspoken comic writer with an imitable take on serious current issues. One of the pioneering voices of contemporary feminism\, she is the author of twenty novels that have been published in nineteen languages. She was writer in residence at the Savoy Hotel\, and is an Ambassador for The National Autistic Society\, Their World and Ambitious about Autism. \n\n\n\nTickets £16.00 (£12.00 Students)
URL:https://dorchesterliteraryfestival.com/event/kathy-lette-the-sisterhood-rules/
LOCATION:The Dorford Centre\, 2 Bridport Road\, Dorchester\, Dorset\, DT1 1RR\, United Kingdom
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