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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:black">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:black">We are delighted to announce that
<b>Professor Phil Howard</b> will be delivering the next WSI Distinguished Lecture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wsi-distinguished-lecture-with-professor-phil-howard-tickets-72219114315">Register for this event</a></span></b><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:black">Date:</span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:black"> Tuesday 8 October<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:black">Time:</span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:black"> 1600 - 1700<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:black">Venue:</span></b><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:black"> B85, Room 2207<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><u><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:black">Refreshments will be available
</span></u></i><i><u><span lang="EN-IE">outside the lecture theatre<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></u></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IE">Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u>Tomorrow’s Leviathan: Intelligent Machines in a Political World<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When will an Artificial Intelligence run for elected office? This may seem like a strange provocation-- just an invitation to futurism and speculation. Yet AI systems are rolling out across economic, cultural and political life. Professor
Philip Howard explores how AI is changing our experience of politics and rewriting democracy’s “terms of service”.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-IE" style="color:black">About the Speaker<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Philip Howard is the Director of the Oxford Internet Institute and a Statutory Professor at Balliol College, Oxford. His research has demonstrated how new information technologies
are used in both civic engagement and social control in countries around the world. His research and opinion writing has been featured in the New York Times, Financial Times, and many other international media outlets. Recently, he was awarded the National
Democratic Institute’s 2018 “Democracy Prize” and Foreign Policy magazine named him a “Global Thinker” for pioneering the social science of fake news.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Kind Regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Nichola<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mrs Nichola Need<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">WSI Administrator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Web Science Institute (WSI)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Southampton<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">B32, Room 3053, Highfield Campus<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Southampton, SO17 1BJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tel: +44 (0) 23 80593255<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Fax: +44 (0) 23 80592783<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi">http://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsi</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/wais">http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/research/wais</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Please note that I only work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays.
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