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GXPG used to only meet in person at Gerrards Cross Community Centre, limiting attendees to those who lived in the area. We were able to continue be going online with meetings over Zoom. Then, as lockdown restrictions eased we ran hybrid Zoom meetings with the meetings at Gerrards Cross also being available by Zoom which also had the advantage of recording the sessions. However, after an initial term attendance in person had not picked up sufficient and the meetings reverted to Zoom only Starting on Monday 6th October, and finishing on Monday 8th December, we are back at Gerrards Cross…

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Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Date: Sat 08 Feb 2025 Time: 10:15am-5:30pm Location: Online or Rewley House 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA For full details and to join the event, visit the website here. Overview Robots, cyborgs and AI systems fire our imaginations and have inspired many movies, from HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey to Data in Star Trek and Skynet in The Terminator. What moral issues do they raise? This day will explore the question of whether AI, robots and cyborgs (part biological, part machine) could ever be conscious and/or deserving of moral consideration, and the…