HNK 2, Zagreb
1 — 3 June
1 — 3 June
Kay Firth-Butterfield is one of the world’s leading experts in AI ethics and governance. She is the CEO of Good Tech Advisory and a recipient of the TIME100 AI Impact Award 2024, as well as being recognized as a Who’s Who Emerging Innovator and featured in Forbes 50 Over 50. She was the inaugural Head of Artificial Intelligence and a member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum, and in 2014 became the world’s first Chief AI Ethics Officer.
She is the author of books on artificial intelligence, human rights, and modern slavery, and is actively involved in international initiatives focused on the responsible development of AI. She serves on numerous advisory boards and organizations, including the UNESCO International Research Centre on AI and Earth Species Project, and is regarded as one of the most influential global voices in responsible technology and AI governance.
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?
