Existential Hope AI futures worldbuilding course launch party!
📍 Location: Divinity School, Bodleian Library, Oxford
📆 Date & Time: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 | 18:30 – 21:30
🍸 Drinks & Canapés!
🔗 Applications based—space is limited
AI is advancing rapidly, reshaping economies, governance, and society. Yet while technical experts dominate the conversation, we need more voices to help shape AI’s trajectory—ensuring it serves humanity.
This event celebrates the launch of the Existential Hope AI Futures Worldbuilding Course, an online program designed to equip social innovators and entrepreneurs with tools to navigate and shape AI’s trajectory. The course, a collaboration between Foresight Institute and Future of Life Institute, features leading thinkers in AI and governance, including Helen Toner (Director of Strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, ex OpenAI board member), Hannah Ritchie (Deputy Editor at Our World in Data), Glen Weyl (Political Economist, Microsoft Research & RadicalxChange), and Robert Lempert (RAND), among others.
Held alongside Skoll World Forum 2025, this launch event will bring together changemakers to explore AI’s impact on social innovation and global systems.
🎤 Featured Speakers
Beatrice Erkers, Foresight Institute (moderator)
📩 Who Should Apply?
This event is open to students, leaders, and innovators who want to engage with AI’s future and ensure it benefits humanity. If you're working in governance, social impact, or related fields but haven't yet explored AI’s implications, this event—and the course it launches—will help you navigate and shape its trajectory.
📍 Apply to Attend
Space is limited—applications required.
🔗 Apply Now via this Luma event.
We look forward to seeing you in Oxford!