AI and Algorithm: Attention Seeker or Attention Stealer

This isn't just distraction: it's an attention attack. As AI and algorithms compete to capture every second of your focus, this panel explores how our minds are being shaped, stretched and monetised, and what we're losing in the process.

Attention and AI aren't separate stories. Both belong to the same tech takeover: corporate monopolies built on an extractive relationship, sold to us as inevitable progress. Our attention has already been hacked; we're only at the foothills of what AI will do next.

But is it all just moral panic? Or a real paradigm shift?

Join Kate Devlin, interdisciplinary computer scientist and Professor of AI and Society at King's College London. Julia Bell, Professor of New Writing at Birkbeck and author of Radical Attention. And cultural and current affairs interviewer Robin Clyfan, to entangle the worlds of AI extraction and attention capture.