HNK 2, Zagreb
1 — 3 June
Title of the Talk

TRUST OR CHAOS: JUST BECAUSE AI CAN… SHOULD IT?

We eat, work, love, plan our day-and increasingly, we do it all with the help of artificial intelligence. AI makes our lives easier: it suggests what to watch, writes messages, chooses routes, and saves time. It has become an invisible companion to our everyday lives-quiet, fast, and indispensable.

But what happens when artificial intelligence no longer decides just our playlists, but who gets a job, who receives a loan, who has access to healthcare, or whose voice is heard in society?

Kay Firth-Butterfield, recipient of the TIME100 AI Impact Award and the first Global Head of AI Ethics at the World Economic Forum, takes us to the heart of one of the most important questions of our time: just because AI can, does it mean it should?

Because without responsibility, transparency, and clear rules, artificial intelligence becomes more than technology-it becomes a new form of power. And the future will not depend on how intelligent AI is, but on how willing we are to set boundaries.

Will we build a system we can trust- or are we entering an era of algorithmic chaos?