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Calum Chace

Global Keynote Speaker on AI and co-founder of Conscium
  • Specializes in artificial intelligence, focusing on its societal impact and the future of technological and economic singularities.
  • Author of influential books like Surviving AI and The Economic Singularity, exploring the challenges and opportunities AI presents.
  • Renowned speaker, advocating for proactive adaptation to AI-driven changes and preparing for the rise of superintelligence.
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Calum Chace's 2025 biography

Calum Chace, author of Surviving AI and co-founder of Conscium

Calum is a keynote speaker and best-selling writer on artificial intelligence. He is a co-founder of Conscium, a startup exploring the possibility of machine consciousness.

His talks focus on the medium- and long-term impact of AI on all of us, our societies and our economies. He advises companies and governments on AI policy, and co-hosts the London Futurists Podcast.

His non-fiction books on AI are Surviving AI, about superintelligence, and The Economic Singularity, about the future of jobs. Both are now in their third editions.

He also wrote Pandora’s Brain and Pandora’s Oracle, a pair of techno-thrillers about the first superintelligence. He is a regular contributor to magazines, newspapers, and radio.

In the last decade, Calum has given over 150 talks in 20 countries on six continents. Videos of his talks, and lots of other materials are available at .

He is co-founder of a think tank focused on the future of jobs, called the Economic Singularity Foundation. The Foundation has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members.

Before becoming a full-time writer and speaker, Calum had a 30-year career in journalism and in business, as a marketer, a strategy consultant and a CEO. He studied philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford University, which confirmed his suspicion that science fiction is actually philosophy in fancy dress.

Calum Chace's 2025 talks & topics

Artificial Intelligence and the Two Singularities

  • The best time in human history
  • The achievements and promise of AI
  • The economic singularity: joblessness and the leisure society
  • The technological singularity: superintelligence
  • Our most important century

The Next Ten Years

  • Two Big Bangs
  • Exponentials
  • Products: Phones, Cars, Robots
  • Services: Healthcare and Education
  • Superintelligence soon?

Digital Transformation: Survive and Thrive

  • The best time in human history
  • Exponential change
  • Companies must get ABLE
  • Individuals must get REAL
  • Why this is the most important time ever

Healthcare and AI

  • The ear and the rear
  • The What, How, and Why of AI
  • CEO of your own health
  • AI-driven pharmacy
  • Longevity Escape Velocity

Education and AI

  • Education is a slow learner
  • The What, How, and Why of AI
  • Personalised AI tutors
  • Virtual education
  • Vacational, not vocational

The Metaverse

  • A very old idea
  • Smartphones and smart glasses
  • Augmented, Virtual, Mixed, and Extended Reality
  • How to make money
  • Use cases

Surviving Superintelligence

  • What is this AI thing anyway?
  • AI’s Big Bangs and the state of the art
  • Can we create human-level AI?
  • Will it be good for us?
  • The Four Cs of Superintelligence

The Economic Singularity: a Jobless Future?

  • De-mystifying AI
  • Exponentials and technological unemployment
  • The Luddite fallacy
  • Automation is our friend
  • Joblessness and Abundance

The Philosophy of AI

  • Intelligence, consciousness, and AI
  • Trolleyology: would you throw the fat man off the bridge?
  • Slaves to the algorithm (with apologies to Grace Jones)
  • Could a machine be a moral agent?
  • The simulation hypothesis