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Adrian Woolfson: on the future of species

Date & Time

📅 Tue, Feb 17, 2026

🕐 6:00 PM

Ends: Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 7:00 PM

Location

📍 The RSA

The Great Room 8 John Adam St, London, WC2N 6EZ, United Kingdom, London, Gt Lon, WC2N 6EZ

🏙️ London

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What happens when life becomes programmable?

Adrian Woolfson: on the future of species

Tuesday 17th February 2026

6-7pm

RSA House and online via YouTube


Can you imagine a future where we grow houses rather than build them? Where smartphones are living, clothing has opinions, and all human knowledge fits into a speck of DNA?

Humanity is at the cusp of a technological revolution, driven by the convergence of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. But how do we even begin to approach what is ahead?

Join geneticist and author Adrian Woolfson as he explains his bold vision for a future shaped by AI and synthetic biology.

Discussing the ethical and ecological choices ahead with Adrian is Helen Czerski, physicist, oceanographer, and broadcaster.

An unmissable debate on hope and humanity.

Speaker:

  • Adrian Woolfson, Geneticist and Author

Chair:

  • Helen Czerski, Physicist, Oceanographer, Presenter and Author


Image credit: Nidia Dias & Google DeepMind / https://betterimagesofai.org

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