Introducing this year’s contributions by CRASSH to the Cambridge Festival (17 March – 2 April 2023).
The Library of the Great Silence
The Library of the Great Silence is a unique research facility dedicated to examining existential risks of the present, and to facilitating discussion about future flourishing, by investigating societal transformations from the past.
Visit our exhibition of crowd-sourced objects and listen to interviews by artist and podcaster Robert Good with contributors about their chosen objects.
Details on a talk about the Library of the Great Silence are further down in this list.
17 March – 14 April 2023
Visit the exhibition Listen to the podcast
Polarisation, hate speech and the role of artificial intelligence
We live in a time of extreme polarisation in many areas and parts of life, and modern technological advances have without a doubt played a crucial role in this development.
In this talk, Stefanie Ullmann aims to give an overview of the current risks as well as opportunities posed by artificially intelligent systems in the context of online (de)polarisation.
23 March 2023
Data Walk: Accessibility and our hidden digital infrastructure
Join Louise Hickman for an accessible walking tour of Cambridge, exploring accessibility and data infrastructure in our cities.
25 March 2023 | Fully booked
Women, climate change and fieldwork
A discussion around climate change in South Asia with Aisha Khan (climate change activist and the CEO of the Mountain and Glacier Protection Organization) and Gemma Sou (Graphic novelist).
27 March 2023
The Right to Repair: taking back control of the things we own
The Right to Repair is a growing global movement that campaigns for the right of individuals and small businesses to repair and modify their own electronic devices without being hindered by restrictive policies and anti-competitive practices of manufacturers.
Join John Naughton and Marco Caballero for a discussion of why it’s important to take back control of things we own.
28 March 2023
The Library of the Great Silence
The Library of the Great Silence is a unique research facility dedicated to examining existential risks of the present, and to facilitating discussion about future flourishing, by investigating societal transformations from the past.
Join us for a talk with Jonathon Keats (artist, experimental philosopher and founder of the Library of the Great Silence) & Robert Good (artist and podcaster).
29 March 2023
Artificial Intelligence: can systems like ChatGPT automate empathy?
In this talk, Marcus Tomalin will explore the difficulties of defining ’empathy’ before explaining in an accessible manner how state-of-the-art dialogue systems such as ChatGPT work, and summarising some of the techniques that are being used to make such systems seem more empathetic.
31 March 2023
