AI, technology and society: shaping the future together

AI is about people – the most sophisticated AI models are trained on trillions of tokens that capture human communication, behaviours, and interactions. And AI advancement affects people – it is changing our economies and societies, our interactions, our institutions, our ways of living and learning.

Join us as our panel discuss how their work at the intersection of AI and the social sciences can help to ensure AI advancement serves the greater good. Exploring the how social science insights can shape AI innovation; the importance of research into the most consequential impacts of AI on our economies and societies; and how AI tools and methodologies can transform social science investigation.

This event rounds up a year-long focus on AI, technology and society. You can browse our dedicated hub showcasing LSE research and commentary at AI at LSE.

Meet our speakers and chair

Cosmina Dorobantu (@CosDorobantu) is Professor in Practice at LSE’s Data Science Institute, and Turing OII Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is the winner of the 2025 UK AI & Robotics Research Community Award for her significant contributions to the AI policy landscape. Cosmina co-founded and co-directed the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute, which helped over 100 public sector organisations and gained national and international recognition for its pioneering work on AI for government.

Helen Margetts (@HelenMargetts, @helenmargetts.bsky.social) is Professor of Society and the Internet in the Oxford Internet Institute, a multi-disciplinary department of the University of Oxford. She is a senior advisor and visiting professor at LSE’s Data Science Institute. From 2018 to 2025, she founded and directed the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and AI. She has researched and written extensively about the relationship between technology, politics, public policy and government including over 150 articles and six books on the topic, including Digital Era Governance and Data Science, AI and the Third Wave of Digital Governance. Her book Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action won the Political Studies Association’s W.J.Mackenzie prize for best politics book in 2017.

Larry Kramer has been President and Vice Chancellor of LSE since April 2024. A constitutional scholar, university administrator, and philanthropic leader, he was previously the President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Dean of Stanford Law School.

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The Data Science Institute (@LSEDataScience) is an interdisciplinary institute fostering the study of data science and AI with a focus on the social sciences through research, education and engagement.

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