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Censorship stifles;
inquiry liberates.

The Zurich Salon Podcast Ep. 1: Sandy Starr on AI

This is a conversation on AI with Sandy Starr, held in Zurich on the 04.05.2024.

Sandy Starr is deputy director of the Progress Educational Trust, a charity that advances public understanding of science, law and ethics in the fields of genetics/genomics, assisted conception and embryo/stem cell research. Sandy also serves on the Oversight Group of the project Governance of Stem-Cell-Based Embryo Models, led by Cambridge Reproduction.

Sandy has addressed MPs in the UK Parliament on the subject of human embryo research, and has given a TEDx talk about genomics. He is author of the pamphlet AI: Separating Man from Machine, he has written about AI in relation to the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace, and he has debated about AI in relation to architecture.

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