Digital Futures: Rethinking Inequalities in an AI-driven world

Digital technologies are increasingly shaping how we live, work, and access services, but their impacts are uneven. While they can create opportunities, they also have the potential to reinforce or deepen existing inequalities in ways that are often subtle and interconnected.

This panel brings together speakers from different backgrounds to explore how inequalities operate in the digital sphere and how power distribution in the field of AI and digital technology is reshaping inequalities today. What is the contribution of academia in this constantly evolving landscape and how can we strengthen the synergies between academia and policy to promote social justice and democracy in the digital space? Join our panel for a timely and thought-provoking conversation.

This event forms part of UCL’s Grand Challenge of Inequalities.

Meet the speakers

• Rowan Wilkinson is an expert in tech policy, geopolitics and digital strategy and a Research Associate in the Digital Society Programme at Chatham House.
• Dr Anna Tsalapatanis is a Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy at University College London.
• Sara Alsherif is a human/ rights defender and researcher in digital rights and a migrant digital justice programme manager at Open Rights Group.
• Nai Lee Kalema is a PhD candidate in Innovation and Public Policy at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (UCL IIPP).
• Moderator: Dr Adele Galipo, Lecturer in Sociology at UCL Social Research Institute and recipient of UCL’s Grand Challenge of Inequalities Catalyst Grant.
• Introduction: Katerina Tassi, MSc Sociology student at UCL Social Research Institute.