Discussion: Frontier Technologies and Impact

​This session is initiated by the fellowship candidates of the 2025/2026 cohort of the Introduction to Political Technology Programme at Newspeak House. It is open to external guests by approval only.

​AI systems, coding agents, and other frontier technologies are moving fast and people's experiences of them vary. Some of us are building with these tools and excited by what they make possible. Others are watching closely and asking harder questions about what they cost: in energy, in water, in labour, in power.

We're talking AI systems, coding agents, robotics, synthetic biology, satellite networks, and more tools that are already making decisions, displacing labour, and consuming resources at scale.

​This participatory workshop is a space to bring those different experiences into conversation.

​We'll open with a short survey presentation of what frontier technologies actually look like right now. From there, participants will map their own hopes, concerns, and questions in a structured activity before we move into group discussion.

​Come with your experiences, your enthusiasm and your concerns. This is a space to share, be challenged, and learn from each other.