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Calum Chace

Global Keynote Speaker on AI and co-founder of Conscium

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Gender: Male
Nationality: United Kingdom
Languages: English
Travels from: United Kingdom

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Biography Highlights

  • Specializes in artificial intelligence, focusing on its societal impact and the future of technological and economic singularities.
  • Author of influential books like Surviving AI and The Economic Singularity, exploring the challenges and opportunities AI presents.
  • Renowned speaker, advocating for proactive adaptation to AI-driven changes and preparing for the rise of superintelligence.

Biography

Calum Chace, author of Surviving AI and co-founder of Conscium

Calum is a keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He is a co-founder of Conscium, a startup exploring the possibility of machine consciousness.

His talks focus on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy, and co-hosts the London Futurists Podcast.

His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions.

He also wrote Pandora’s Brain and Pandora’s Oracle, a pair of techno-thrillers about the first superintelligence. He is a regular contributor to magazines, newspapers, and radio.

In the last decade, Calum has given over 150 talks in 20 countries on six continents. Videos of his talks, and lots of other materials are available at .

He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members.

Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress.

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Topics

  • The best time in human history
  • The achievements and promise of AI
  • The economic singularity: joblessness and the leisure society
  • The technological singularity: superintelligence
  • Our most important century
Available: In person, Virtually
  • Two Big Bangs
  • Exponentials
  • Products: Phones, Cars, Robots
  • Services: Healthcare and Education
  • Superintelligence soon?
Available: In person, Virtually
  • The best time in human history
  • Exponential change
  • Companies must get ABLE
  • Individuals must get REAL
  • Why this is the most important time ever
Available: In person, Virtually
  • The ear and the rear
  • The What, How, and Why of AI
  • CEO of your own health
  • AI-driven pharmacy
  • Longevity Escape Velocity
Available: In person, Virtually
  • Education is a slow learner
  • The What, How, and Why of AI
  • Personalised AI tutors
  • Virtual education
  • Vacational, not vocational
Available: In person, Virtually
  • A very old idea
  • Smartphones and smart glasses
  • Augmented, Virtual, Mixed, and Extended Reality
  • How to make money
  • Use cases
Available: In person, Virtually
  • What is this AI thing anyway?
  • AI’s Big Bangs and the state of the art
  • Can we create human-level AI?
  • Will it be good for us?
  • The Four Cs of Superintelligence
Available: In person, Virtually
  • De-mystifying AI
  • Exponentials and technological unemployment
  • The Luddite fallacy
  • Automation is our friend
  • Joblessness and Abundance
Available: In person, Virtually
  • Intelligence, consciousness, and AI
  • Trolleyology: would you throw the fat man off the bridge?
  • Slaves to the algorithm (with apologies to Grace Jones)
  • Could a machine be a moral agent?
  • The simulation hypothesis
Available: In person, Virtually
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Calum Chace book

Pandora’s Brain

Pandora’s Brain is a techno-thriller in the style of Michael Crichton by best-selling writer Calum Chace. It uses the issues raised by the machine intelligence explosion as a platform for a fast-paced and thought-provoking adventure story. Set in the near future, it features Matt, a shy but engaging and resourceful student who discovers that his recently-deceased father was involved in research that could enable the construction of the world’s first conscious machine. Matt’s enquiries lead to him being kidnapped, as he is caught in the crossfire between two groups pursuing that goal – one led by a Russian billionaire, and another backed by the US military. Matt has to do more than simply survive: he has to harness these powerful forces to his own ends. At stake is his own life and those of his family and friends. A dramatic seaborne rescue operation, a series of brutal murders and other filmic action scenes follow. In the course of his adventures, Matt discovers that the potential upside of creating machine intelligence includes immortality, and godlike powers of understanding and being – but the potential downside is immediate extinction, or worse. As he is drawn deeper into his adventure, he becomes both the symbol and the victim of a global struggle over the approach to be taken towards this powerful new technology. A landmark decision at a meeting of the UN General Assembly forces Matt to make a fateful decision which sparks the story’s final twist. Pandora’s Brain will appeal to readers of Michael Crichton, as well as to readers of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists.

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Pandora’s Brain

Pandora’s Brain is a techno-thriller in the style of Michael Crichton by best-selling writer Calum Chace. It uses the issues raised by the machine intelligence explosion as a platform for a fast-paced and thought-provoking adventure story. Set in the near future, it features Matt, a shy but engaging and resourceful student who discovers that his recently-deceased father was involved in research that could enable the construction of the world’s first conscious machine. Matt’s enquiries lead to him being kidnapped, as he is caught in the crossfire between two groups pursuing that goal – one led by a Russian billionaire, and another backed by the US military. Matt has to do more than simply survive: he has to harness these powerful forces to his own ends. At stake is his own life and those of his family and friends. A dramatic seaborne rescue operation, a series of brutal murders and other filmic action scenes follow. In the course of his adventures, Matt discovers that the potential upside of creating machine intelligence includes immortality, and godlike powers of understanding and being – but the potential downside is immediate extinction, or worse. As he is drawn deeper into his adventure, he becomes both the symbol and the victim of a global struggle over the approach to be taken towards this powerful new technology. A landmark decision at a meeting of the UN General Assembly forces Matt to make a fateful decision which sparks the story’s final twist. Pandora’s Brain will appeal to readers of Michael Crichton, as well as to readers of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists.
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Pandora’s Oracle

Humanity creates god. Can humanity survive?Pandora’s Oracle In this sequel to “Pandora’s Brain”, we find out what really happened to Matt at the end of the first book. A couple of years later, Matt is called on to tackle an existential threat to humanity. The risks are terrifying. Matt agrees to help, but he has his own plans for the future.

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Pandora’s Oracle

Humanity creates god. Can humanity survive?Pandora's Oracle In this sequel to “Pandora’s Brain”, we find out what really happened to Matt at the end of the first book. A couple of years later, Matt is called on to tackle an existential threat to humanity. The risks are terrifying. Matt agrees to help, but he has his own plans for the future.

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