Keynote speaker & moderator on AI and technology
Tim FrankAndersen
I’ve worked in tech for 30 years. Right now the big shift is AI
- I help organisations understand what’s real, what’s next, and what’s in it for them.
About
Thirty years in tech - from founding one of Denmark’s first digital agencies to co-founding Institute of AI. Author, tech expert on TV, and advisor to some of the world’s biggest brands.
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Format 01
Keynote - The AI Explosion
What’s real, what’s next, and what’s in it for you. Live demos, honest answers, and a look at the next 12-24 months, which will change our world.
Format 02
Moderator
The person tying it all together - sharp questions and a clear thread through your conference.
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Rated 5.0 from 11 reviews.
“I’ve heard plenty of talks about AI, and never found it more captivating or relevant than yours.”
Rikke Ekelund
“He inspired us all. Not a generic set of examples, but real, recent insight - told with genuine care for the work we do.”
Marc Amin
“Thank you for an extremely exciting talk - on a topic every company will relate to. Exciting to think about where we’ll be in 5 years: we must see opportunities, not limitations.”
Gitte Taulov Rude, Senior Business Advisor, Danske Bank
Updated every day
Today in AI - 5 curated news stories that matter
Curated by Tim, every morning.
- 01
A chatbot's bad answer nearly put American troops on a Chinese ship
Most of us worry about AI getting a detail wrong in a report. Here is that worry at full size. An analyst at US Special Operations Command asked a chatbot what a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying, and the answer came back as parts for Iran's nuclear programme. Planes were up and armed troops were ready to board before someone reread the intelligence and stopped it. One source told CNN it almost started a war. A Pentagon review has also tied over-reliance on an AI system to a strike that killed 123 children. Who in your company would reread the source?
- 02
Big Tech is keeping 300 billion dollars of AI debt off its books
Yesterday you read about OpenAI planning to spend far more than it earns for years. The Financial Times has now worked out how a lot of that building gets paid for. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle stand behind about 300 billion dollars of AI commitments that never reach their balance sheets. Another company borrows the money and builds the data centre, and the tech giant guarantees the payments. Alphabet backs 43.8 billion dollars this way and has set aside 815 million against losses. Bloomberg Tax compares the structure to the accounting that brought down Enron. If you want to know how exposed these companies are, their accounts are the wrong place to look.
- 03
A Swedish drone chose its own target and dropped a bomb
Over a Swedish test range, a drone found four objects, ranked an armoured vehicle as the most important, flew to it and dropped an explosive in under six minutes. A person set the mission and the AI on board chose the target. It came from Scaleout Systems, a small spin-out from Uppsala University, with the weapon from BAE Systems Bofors and NATO funding. A pilot sat ready as a failsafe and there are no orders yet. What the company sells, though, is a drone that keeps working once the radio link drops, and every argument we make for keeping a human in the loop assumes that human is reachable.
- 04
Washington and Beijing agree to talk about AI going wrong
Read this one next to the first story. After eight hours of talks in New York on Sunday, the US and China agreed to open a dialogue on AI. Washington put something concrete on the table: a way of telling each other when an AI incident is serious enough to alarm a national security team. A hotline for AI accidents, in plain terms. Chip export controls stay out of it, so the hard disagreements are untouched, and a working group carries on before Trump and Xi meet this week. Given the near-boarding in the first story, I would call a phone line overdue.
- 05
OpenAI's ad pixel now follows you around the web
If you stay signed into ChatGPT, OpenAI can now see a good deal of what you do on other websites. A researcher found OpenAI's advertising code running live on Wayfair, HelloFresh and Coursera, among others. The code sends back a cookie tied to your ChatGPT account, along with emails, phone numbers and postcodes scraped off the page. OpenAI files that cookie as analytics, so refusing marketing cookies does not stop it, and OpenAI did not answer the researcher's questions. Meta and Google have done this for years. The difference is that you tell ChatGPT things you would never type into a search box.
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