WAI Switzerland · Speaker Series

​Join us for this speaker series event with Dr. Patrizia Benedetti on Beyond Capability: Understanding the Societal and Governance Risks of Advanced AI (AGI/ASI).

​Bring your lunch box, your questions, and your smile, and get ready to gain new insights.

​📅 Date: 23 April 2026
⏰ Time: 12:00–12:45 PM CET
📍 Location: Online via Zoom

AI is not waiting for us to be ready.

​As systems become more capable, persuasive, and embedded in decision-making, accountability becomes harder to see and harder to assign.

​In this session, Dr. Patrizia Benedetti challenges the common framing of AI risk as a distant future problem. The more immediate risk lies in a widening gap: technological capability is scaling rapidly, while human judgment, institutional design, and governance structures evolve far more slowly.

​This gap already appears in everyday decisions — from hiring and legal drafting to strategy and routine professional work — where fluent AI outputs can quietly reduce scrutiny and blur responsibility.

​AI amplifies what is already present: human incentives, blind spots, and governance quality. The challenge is ensuring that the human infrastructure around these systems is strong enough to carry the accountability.

Speaker:
Dr. Patrizia Benedetti is Founder of STRATHENA, a Swiss advisory focused on AI governance and responsible AI adoption in regulated environments.

​With more than 25 years of experience across financial services and MedTech, she helps organizations translate complex technological and regulatory developments into structured governance frameworks and accountable decision-making processes.

​Originally trained as a theoretical physicist, she brings a systems-thinking approach to clarifying institutional responsibility and managing AI-related risks.