Event – Avoiding catastrophic risks from uncontrolled AI agency

I was fortunate to get one of the last tickets for the upcoming „Munich AI Lecture“ with A.M. Turing Award winner Prof. Yoshua Bengio. The event will take place on Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 6:00 pm in the Plenary Hall of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich.

The lecture will address the topic: “Avoiding catastrophic risks from uncontrolled AI agency.” After the streamed talk, there will be a live stage discussion with an exclusive panel of speakers: Stephanie Jacobs, Head of Office at the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts; Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok, Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at Ludwig-Maximilian University; and Andrea Martin, Chief Technology Officer at IBM. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Michael Klimke, CEO of BAIOSPHERE Agency.

It’s not every day that you get the chance to hear directly from one of the leading voices in AI, and I’m really looking forward to the exchange of ideas. Events like this are a great opportunity to step back from the daily AI buzz and think more broadly about where this technology is heading.