An evening with Susie Alegre, Friday 21st July 2023, 8pm, The Chapel in the Garden, Bridport, 49 East Street, DT6 3JX, (Rax Lane entrance), £10 (cash only), contact: 07833 79 56 29
Without a moment’s hesitation, we share our most intimate thoughts with trillion-dollar tech companies. Their algorithms categorize us and leap to troubling conclusions about who we are. They also shape our everyday thoughts, choices and actions – from whom we date to whether we vote, they keep us safely under control in echo chambers, they de-socialise our young from a very early age by keeping them glued to screens. But this is just the latest front in an age-old struggle. The powerful have always sought to influence how we think and what we buy. Human rights lawyer and author Susie Alegre will chart the history and fragility of our most important human right: freedom of thought and set out a path to protecting it for future generations.
Susie Alegre
Susie Alegre is a leading human rights barrister at the renowned Doughty Street Chambers. She has been a legal pioneer in digital human rights, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on the human rights of freedom of thought and opinion. She is also Senior Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton and the author of Freedom to Think – Protecting a Fundamental Human Right in the Digital Age (Atlantic Books 2022), selected as one of the best books for 2022 in the Financial Times and the Telegraph.
