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Free tickets open: Taming AI 🎟️ gres.hm/ai-taming Prof Matt Jones looks at proposals to limit #AI powers & impacts, so bad outcomes are outweighed by the social benefits; and how individuals and governments can navigate an AI-driven future. @WCITLivery @SwanseaUni

Do satirists have a moral compass? Watch more: gres.hm/ethics-satire #Satire once aimed to reform through ridicule - but today it’s under fire. Where’s the line between #FreeSpeech & hate speech? Prof Judith Hawley* explores satire’s past & present @RHULEnglish

A World Without Work Book free👉 gres.hm/world-without-… Prof @danielsusskind* asks, what is the future of human work when tech leaders hope to build #AI that can outperform us at every economically useful task, within a decade.🤖? *also of @KingsCollegeLon

Gresham Professor of Physic, Robin May, on the routes of transmission re: #meningitis - stay safe everyone!

Well educated ... but unemployed? 👉 gres.hm/out-reach Prof @danielsusskind* explores frictional tech unemployment: work exists, but people can’t access it - facing skills gaps, location, and identity mismatches. *also of @KingsCollegeLon @EthicsInAI

Could you be the next Gresham Professor of Divinity? Applications now open! We're looking for a candidate hailing from the fields of theology and religious studies. Apply 👉 gres.hm/divinity Here's a few words from our current Professor of Divinity, Ronald Hutton...

Free Tickets: The Dictionary City: Londoners and the Oxford English Dictionary 📖 👉 gres.hm/dictionary-city Prof Sarah Ogilvie (@UniofOxford) uncovers the surprising stories behind the contributors and compilation of one of the world’s most famous books! #Etymology

Tickets open! 🎶 Music of the Mind 👉 gres.hm/music-mind Where does music live in the brain? Illusion, evolutionary byproduct, or key to human thought? Prof Milton Mermikides @miltonline explores music’s deep ties to language, memory & emotion... @SurreyDMM

New episode of the Gresham College Podcast features an interview with Antony Penrose! 🎙️ Following on from his Gresham lecture, we caught up with him to learn more about his mother Lee Miller’s work as a photographer during WWII... Watch 👉 gres.hm/lee-podcast

What makes an image unforgettable? In 'Lee Miller's Indelible Images', her son Antony Penrose reflects upon his mother's astounding life and legacy... Watch more here 👉 gres.hm/lee-miller #LeeMiller #WW2 #Holocaust #WarPhotography #GreshamCollege

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Ever heard of Tuvan throat singing? 🎶 In 'Music of Earth and Space', Prof of Music @miltonline explores the deep connection between music and the cosmos, where all existence vibrates in frequencies... 🌍🌌 Watch now 👉 gres.hm/music-earth-sp… @SurreyDMM

This week at Gresham College: 🔥 Bridget: Goddess and Saint – Prof Ronald Hutton 👉 gres.hm/goddess-bridget 🏛️ The Death of Athenian Democracy? – Prof Melissa Lane 👉 gres.hm/death-athenian… 🎥 Watch live online!

Happy International Women’s Day! ✨ In 'Why Writing Women Back into History Matters', historian Janina Ramirez brings extraordinary medieval women back into view, from the Birka Warrior Woman to Hildegard of Bingen and Queen Jadwiga... Watch lecture 👉 gres.hm/women-history

This weekend, celebrate #InternationalWomensDay! ✨ Economic history is often told as a story about men. In 'How Women Made the Global Economy', Dr Victoria Bateman (@vnbateman) uncovers the forgotten stories of female economic revolutionaries... 👉 gres.hm/economy

Really enjoyed Prof @chrislintott’s outing on the Harry Hill Show podcast!🎙️✨ Alongside comedian Phil Wang, they explored the Big Bang as part of the show’s Theme of the Week 🌌 📖 Read more: gres.hm/hh ▶️ Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=7SZY9I… #astronomy 🎧🔭

Tonight at 6pm: The Shape of Gravity: Why On Earth Are Planets Spherical? by Prof @AlainGoriely Watch 👉 gres.hm/shape-gravity Read about abstract artist Tony Kit Kirk, who made art inspired by Prof Goriely's previous lecture 'The Shape of Shells' 👉 gres.hm/shells-art

Happy St David's Day with a little something from @GreshamCollege on finding lost gods in Wales. gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/wale…

Unauthorised Deepfakes & Digital Replicas: Time for Reform? 🎟️ gres.hm/deepfakes-repl… #Deepfakes spread disinformation, demeaning content, & displace creative workers. Dr Hayleigh Bosher on what legal reform could look like in the #UK, and wider solutions... #AI #AILaw

Free, in-person tickets now open: A Living Planet 🌍 gres.hm/living-planet How much life is on #Earth? Prof Helen Czerski explores global biomass, from microbes to wild & domesticated animals, and why #biodiversity is vital for ecosystems and civilisation @uclmecheng @UCL