05.06.2026

SAINTS ‘Pint of Science’

SAINTS PhD researcher, Samuel Messiter, presented as part of a set of four talks at York’s annual public science engagement event ‘Pint of Science’.

The general theme of the night was ‘Leveraging Technology to Improve Efficiency’. This talk centered around the question of ‘AI and the Importance of Protecting Human Freedom’. Fundamentally, it warned of a suggested immediate threat to human freedom in the form of potential AI over-dependency leading to erosion of our critical skills in the ‘arts of personhood’.