We will be hosting a live discussion between two heavyweights in this space. Connor Leahy making the case for the potential existential risk of AI, and Grady Booch making the counter case. We hope this moderated and structured discussion will be fruitful and cover significant ground, we will also allow some live audience questions towards the end. The duration will be 60 or 90 mins (TBC). Grady Booch is a renowned computer scientist known for advancing software engineering and architecture, co-authoring the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and founding the Agile Alliance. As Chief Scientist for Software Engineering at IBM Research, Grady leads IBM's research and development on embodied cognition. An IBM Fellow, ACM Fellow, and IEEE Fellow, he has authored numerous books and technical articles. Grady's current work includes architecting complex software-intensive systems, space-related projects, and studying the mind's architecture and design patterns. Moreover, he is producing a transmedia documentary exploring the intersection of computing and the human experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Booch https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch Connor Leahy is the CEO of Conjecture and was the ex-lead and co-founder of EleutherAI. Conner Leahy is an AI researcher working on understanding large ML models and aligning them to human values. Conjecture is a team of researchers dedicated to applied, scalable AI alignment research. Connor believes that transformative artificial intelligence will happen within our lifetime. He also believes that powerful, advanced AI will be derived from modern machine learning architectures and techniques like gradient descent. Connor is currently the main spokesperson for the AI alignment movement. https://twitter.com/NPCollapse https://www.conjecture.dev/ Moderated by Dr. Tim Scarfe (https://xrai.glass/ and https://twitter.com/MLStreetTalk)