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Politics in the Pub - Code Red: Are we losing control of AI?

  • November 11, 2026 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

  • Turbine Platform - Brisbane Powerhouse

    Brisbane Powerhouse
    New Farm, Queensland 4005
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Description

AI is transforming our world — helping diagnose disease, accelerating scientific discovery and making technology more accessible. As increasingly powerful AI gathers pace, some of the people building these systems are warning that we may be creating something we could ultimately struggle to control.

 

AI optimists see the technology as a potential problem-solver, capable of helping humanity tackle our biggest challenges. Others warn that uncontrolled AI poses an existential threat to humanity, potentially within the next decade. With the development of powerful AI concentrated in the hands of a small number of mega companies, questions about oversight, regulation and who gets to decide AI's future are becoming urgent.

 

Is it too late to take back control? Can governments move fast enough to regulate a technology evolving at speed? And how do we harness AI's potential without creating risks we can't undo?

 

Join us for a lively discussion about AI, power, regulation, risk and the future of humanity, and the question at the heart of it all: are we building the technology that will save us, or the technology that could replace us?

 

Host: Elly Pashen 4ZZZ

Panel: Dr Shay Dougall, Prof Frederick von Briel, Dr Sarah Daly, Ross Archer

Date & Time

Wed, Nov 11, 2026 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Venue Details

Turbine Platform - Brisbane Powerhouse

Brisbane Powerhouse
New Farm, Queensland 4005 Turbine Platform - Brisbane Powerhouse
BRISBANE POWERHOUSE PTY LTD

Brisbane Powerhouse is Queensland’s home for contemporary culture, a magnificent power station of the 1920s reborn as an arts centre on the Brisbane River.

 

As Brisbane City Council’s premier arts venue, the much-loved building stages more than 1250 performances a year including a program of festivals, as well as hundreds of events and functions from weddings to conferences, all the while housing heritage-listed graffiti, riverside bars and restaurants, visual arts exhibitions and of course the stories of all who have ventured, laughed and shared memories within its living walls.


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