# Event Details

- **Event Name**: PHILOSOPHY IN THE BOOKSHOP with Carissa Véliz
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 11:00 am – Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 12:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Nigel Warburton interviews Carissa Véliz at this month's Philosophy in the Bookshop event.About this EventProphecyFrom an award-winning University of Oxford professor comes a brilliant, urgent new look at prophecies—the predictions that determine our lives, from our personal finances and the quality of our healthcare to the news and social media we consume and the products foisted upon us. Today's computer scientists play the same role as the oracles of the ancient world and the astrologers of the Middle Ages. Modern predictions not only advise on war, crop output, and marriages, but algorithms and statisticians also now determine whether we can get a loan, a job, an apartment, or an organ transplant. And when we cede ground to these predictions, we lose control of our own lives. In this powerful, refreshing new look at the many ways prediction shapes our everyday lives, University of Oxford professor Carissa Véliz explains how putting too much stock in others' predictions makes us vulnerable to charlatans, con artists, dubious technology, and self-deception. Examining a wide range of subjects both personal and societal, including medicine, climate, technology, society, and others, Véliz uncovers a number of insights: predictions about humans tend to be self-fulfilling; more data doesn't guarantee better outcomes; AI is more likely to increase risk than decrease it; and a free and robust society requires not more prediction, but better preparation. Véliz argues in this incisive and bracingly original book that the main promise of prediction is not knowledge of the future, but rather power over others. Prophecy is an invitation to defy those orders and live life on our own terms.Carissa VélizCarissa Véliz is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Hertford College.Carissa completed her DPhil in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She was then a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford
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- **city**: Oxford
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Blackwell's Bookshop
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- **full address**: Blackwell's Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, United Kingdom

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- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 16 May, 2026 at 11:00 am (+01:00)
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