Gresham College
Economics and Artificial Intelligence
Prof Daniel Susskind
Barnard’s Inn Hall (in-person at Holborn, or online), Tuesday, 13 Jan 2026 – from 6pm
FREE to attend.
ChatGPT, the AI chatbot developed by OpenAI, was the fastest growing app in history. But this achievement, as sudden and remarkable as it might seem, was simply the most recent chapter in a fascinating story that has been unfolding for almost seven decades. This lecture explores the full history of the relationship between AI and work, and how economists have tried to make sense of it. It’s a journey that begins with a remarkable gathering of minds in a nondescript mathematics department at Dartmouth University in 1956 and ends with the technological convulsions that we see around us today.
Further reading
When a chatbot acts as your “trusted” agent …
A CS4FN article about the usefulness and trustworthiness (or not) of AI chatbots, and research done on their behaviour by Steve Phelps, who studies computational finance at UCL.
An example of a job (from 2021) which mixed digital & economics
Note that this job is not about AI (but it is economics-related) and it closed on 13 July 2021. This is archived at TechDevJobs, a repository of example job packs covering a large range of computing, and computing-adjacent, roles.
Teaching London Computing: A RESOURCE HUB from CAS LONDON & CS4FN 