Tech & Society Program: “Who controls the future?” with Carissa Véliz

Aspen Institute España, in collaboration with Fundación Telefónica, will hold the second session of the 10th edition of the Tech & Society Program with Carissa Véliz, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI, and a Fellow at Hertford College at the University of Oxford, to reflect on prediction, power and the future of AI.

The session, titled “Who controls the future?” will take place on Tuesday, June 16th at the Edificio Telefónica.

Who controls the future?

What is a prediction? What can we learn from the history of prediction? In what ways is AI the new Oracle of Delphi? Who has the authority to make predictions? Should we give free rein to prediction markets? Who controls the future?

Carissa Véliz

Carissa Véliz is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI. She studied Philosophy at the University of Salamanca and earned her PhD from the University of Oxford. She has published articles in The New York Times, The Guardian, Wired and El País, among other media outlets. Her academic work has been published in journals such as Harvard Business Review and Nature. She is the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics, and the author of Privacy is Power (an Economist Book of the Year, 2020) and Prophecy: Prediction, Power and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI (2026). She has companies and governments around the world.

Edition X of the Tech & Society Program

The Tech & Society Program has become the leading forum in Spain for reflecting on the major issues raised by advances in digital technology. The 10th edition will bring together leaders from all sectors of civil society to discuss new technological challenges and their influence on diverse areas such as human relations, politics, education, culture, economics, and medicine.