About the Dennis Gabor Lecture The Dennis Gabor Lecture is a Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering flagship event, honouring Dennis Gabor, the inventor of holography. The lecture series focuses on the impact of science and engineering on society. This year, we welcome Professor Michael I. Jordan, Inria Paris and the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Jordan has been a leading researcher in computer science and statistics for over four decades. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, a Foreign Member of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Agenda: 15:30 Research Poster Session with Refreshments 16:30 Lecture 17:15 Question and Answer Session 17:45 Further Refreshments and Posters 19:00 Close The 2026 Dennis Gabor Lecture: A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI Abstract: I nformat i on technology i s i n the m i dst of a revolut i on i n wh i ch omn i present data collect i on and mach i ne learn i ng are i mpact i ng the human world as never before.  The word “ i ntell i gence” i s be i ng used as a North Star for the development of th i s technology, w i th human cogn i t i on v i ewed as a basel i ne. Th i s v i ew neglects the fact that humans are soc i al an i mals, and that much of our i ntell i gence i s soc i al and cultural i n or i g i n.  Thus, a broader fram i ng i s to cons i der the system level, where the agents i n the system, be they computers or humans, are act i ve, they are cooperat i ve, and they w i sh to obta i n value from the i r part i c i pat i on i n learn i ng-based systems. Agents may supply data and other resources to the system only i f i t i s i n the i r i nterest to do so, and they may be honest and cooperat i ve only i f i t i s i n the i r i nterest to do so.  Cr i t i cally, i ntell i gence i nheres as much i n the overall system as i t does i n i nd i v i dual agents. I n the overall system, computat i on of equ i l i br i a replaces computat i on o

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