

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: AI and human agency, Professor Christopher Summerfield
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Explore how AI shapes human agency. Join Christopher Summerfield to discuss influence, persuasion, and building AI that empowers us.About this EventAI and human agencyNarratives in AI safety mostly focus on the growing capability of AI models. For example, there are concerns that highly intelligent AI models could be used for criminal or disruptive purposes, may transform labour markets, or even seek to attain their own misaligned goals. In my lecture, I will argue that the most pressing question in AI safety is not artificial intelligence but artificial influence - the many ways that AI can be used to influence people. The widespread embedding of AI in digital platforms, applications and websites opens the door for a highly automated ‘influence economy’ in which conversational AI systems compete to directly influence our commercial and political choices. I will discuss with reference to empirical work showing that current AI systems can be highly persuasive, socially perceptive, and effective in parasocial relationship-building. I argue that we urgently need to consider how to build AI that enhances rather than degrades human agency.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/oxford/ai-and-human-agency-professor-christopher-summerfield/100001980368509522
- **Event Categories**: artificial-intelligence
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Oxford
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Simpkins Lee Theatre (Lady Margaret Hall)
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- **full address**: Simpkins Lee Theatre (Lady Margaret Hall), Norham Gardens, Oxford, United Kingdom

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- **organizer**: The Institute for Ethics in AI (https://allevents.in/org/the-institute-for-ethics-in-ai/23446493)

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- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Simpkins Lee Theatre (Lady Margaret Hall), Norham Gardens, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Institute for Ethics in AI
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** artificial-intelligence
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