Professor Hassan Ugail

Invisible Systems: How AI is Reshaping Power, Knowledge and Truth

Description

Who do you trust when you can no longer tell what is real? AI is not just a technological revolution; it is a question of power. Built on human choices, shaped by bias and increasingly operating beyond easy scrutiny, it is transforming how knowledge is created, controlled and believed. 

In this urgent panel, journalist Jamie Bartlett, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy and AI scientist Professor Hassan Ugail bring three distinct perspectives to the systems reshaping democracy, creativity, security and truth.  

Together, they ask who benefits, who is left vulnerable and what accountability looks like in an age of invisible algorithms. 

About the Academic

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Professor Hassan Ugail

Professor Hassan Ugail is the director of the Centre for Visual Computing and Intelligent Systems at the University of Bradford in the UK. He is a renowned computer scientist in the area of visual computing and artificial intelligence (AI). He is an advocate of AI for helping to tackle real-world issues in the areas of biometrics, digital health, innovative engineering, and sustainable societies in general. More specifically, he works in the area of human biometrics, especially the development of cutting-edge AI solutions for biometric face recognition and analysis. His work in this area includes helping to unravel the real identity of the two Russian spies at the heart of the Salisbury Novichok poisoning case – one of the biggest international stories of 2018.

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