The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town, Professor Mosa Moshabela, together with the Ethics Lab and the UCT AI Initiative invite you to attend the book launch of The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality  and a discussion with the author, Dr Rachel Adams.

About the author

Dr Rachel Adams is the Founder and CEO of the Global Centre on AI Governance, and a Senior Research Associate at the Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. She is further a Research Fellow at the EthicsLab at the University of Cape Town. She holds degrees in English Literature, International Human Rights Law and Philosophy. She serves on numerous international expert committees including for UNESCO, the UN, UNDP, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Partnership on AI. She advises policy-makers around the world on AI governance, and was one of the lead drafters of the African Union Commission’s Continental AI Strategy. In November 2024, Rachel’s third book The New Empire of AI: The Future of Global Inequality was published with Polity Press.