Calum Chace

The ‘AI Guy’

Calum Chace has a background in business strategy, marketing and journalism working as a marketer, strategy consultant and CEO. His experience of a 30-year career in business marks his work. Today Calum is a sought-after keynote speaker, blogger and best-selling author specialising within the area of artificial intelligence.

Calum Chace

The ‘AI Guy’

Calum Chace has a background in business strategy, marketing and journalism working as a marketer, strategy consultant and CEO. His experience of a 30-year career in business marks his work. Today Calum is a sought-after keynote speaker, blogger and best-selling author specialising within the area of artificial intelligence.

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Biography

As an expert on artificial intelligence, Calum Chace has written multiple best-selling books concerning the potential impact of AI on society. He has also written non-fiction books, including Surviving AI about superintelligence and strong AI, and The Economic Singularity addressing future prospects of technological unemployment. Additionally, he is the author of Pandora’s Brain, a techno-thriller about the first superintelligence.

In his entertaining keynotes, Calum addresses the different challenges and benefits of artificial intelligence. According to Calum, there is a great possibility that the first machine with human-level cognition is created within the next few decades. If this happens, it may entail that superintelligence will be with us soon. Consequently, humans will then be the second smartest species on the planet. As a speaker, Calum Chace is both informative and engaging. He enlightens audiences with eye-opening and thought-provoking facts in an entertaining way. Remaining a popular speaker, Calum travels around the world delivering content-rich keynotes. He has delivered more than 120 keynote speeches in 18 countries on five continents in the last four years.

Additionally, Calum Chace is co-founder of the think tank called Economic Singularity Foundation. It focuses on the future of jobs and has published Stories from 2045, a collection of short stories written by its members.

Topics

  • Surviving AI
  • The Philosophy of AI
  • The Economic Singularity – A Jobless Future?
  • Artificial Intelligence and the Two Singularities

Publications

  • Stories from 2045 (2019)
  • Our Jobless Future (2018)
  • The Economic Singularity (2016)
  • Surviving AI (2015)
  • Pandora’s Brain (2014)

Testimonials

“Calum stands out as one of the most insightful and entertaining speakers we have ever hosted. His presentation prompted many enthusiastic and meaningful discussions long after the event was over, which was exactly what we were aiming for!”

“Your keynote was one of the highlights of our conference. It helped our audience to make sense of AI in a practical way. It was particularly helpful to make a controversial and complex topic easy to comprehend for a diverse audience. Thank you, Calum! We look forward to working together in the near future.”

“I invited Calum to London Business School to give a talk about about artificial intelligence, and its consequences for the business world. The presentation was really engaging, including not only possible impacts on the economy, but also potential solutions. Calum is a great speaker and has a deep understanding of AI, which allows him to present the matter in a completely new light.”

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