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Join the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy for a conversation on AI and the future of global inequality with Rachel Adams, founder and CEO of the Global Centre on AI Governance. As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjugated by it. In conversation with Grand Strategy co-Director Michael Brenes, Adams will discuss AI inequities related to international migration, political instability, populist politics, and climate-related disasters.

Adams is a Research Associate of the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and The Ethics Lab at the University of Cape Town. She serves on numerous international expert committees for UNESCO, the UN, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Global Partnership on AI. She was one of the lead drafters of the African Union Commission’s Continental AI Strategy. In November 2024, Adams’s third book, The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality, will be published with Polity Press.