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AI Salon x LSE Longevity: AI as Infrastructure for the 100-Year Life [London]
Longevity is not just a healthcare issue, it is a structural challenge of our current infrastructure. How to effectively redesign institutions built for 70-year lifespans for life to 100 and beyond?
As lifespans extend and careers lengthen, institutions designed for 20th-century demographics are under strain. At the same time, AI is rapidly embedding itself into labour markets, healthcare systems, pensions, and community infrastructure, offering new capabilities and approaches, including AI-powered systems that can dynamically adjust pension payouts based on real-time longevity data, or adaptive education platforms that enable career transitions across 60-80 year working lives.
Join us for another AI Salon to explore how AI can support the redesign of our institutions and systems for life beyond 100 years.
We're interested in moving beyond the binary debate of whether AI is "good" or "bad," and instead focus on practical ideas on how AI can be intentionally designed, used, and governed to support the redesign of institutions and systems across century-long lives.
Some of the questions we will address:
Where are current institutions failing under demographic pressure, and how might AI help us redesign rather than optimise broken systems?
What new models of governance, welfare, and civic participation might we design when systems must serve century-long lives?
How might AI enable the redesign of participatory governance and civic engagement for ageing democracies?
What does meaningful work look like across 60-80 year careers, and how might AI support continuous learning and career transitions?
What are the risks when AI shapes institutional redesign for longevity? And how do we govern against age-based discrimination and deepening inequalities?
We invite researchers, policymakers, designers, healthcare practitioners, economists, ethicists, and anyone reimagining institutions for extended life to join the discussion.
Some resources to give you a flavour of the themes we'll explore:
The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence (Erik Brynjolfsson)
Summary of “The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity” by Lynda Gratton & Andrew Scott
AI for ageing: Identifying older people in need of social services (OECD)
This is an in-person event. To facilitate smooth and cohesive conversations, please arrive between 6-6:30pm for a prompt discussion start at 6:30pm.
About the AI Salon Format
The AI Salon is an intimate, in-depth conversation — not a panel or lecture.
It is designed for small groups where every participant engages in the discussion. The goal is depth, not broadcast.
Because the quality of the Salon depends on continuity and trust:
• Please arrive between 6:00 and 6:30pm
• Discussion begins promptly at 6:30pm
• Participants are expected to stay for the full duration of the session
Late arrivals or early departures disrupt the cohesion of the conversation.
The Ai Salon is a global community founded in San Francisco focused on intimate, small-sized group discussions on the sociological, economic, cultural, and philosophical impacts and meaning of AI developments. We host small group discussions, all of which you can find on our calendar. You can find summaries of our previous conversations on our substack.
This event in collaboration with LSE Generate, the entrepreneurship hub of the London School of Economics. LSE Generate supports students and alumni in building early-stage ventures through structured programs, funding, mentorship, and ecosystem partnerships.
In particular, this session is connected to the Long Life Venture Builder (LLVB) — a thematic venture program co-developed by LSE Generate and the LSE Global School of Sustainability (GSOS). LLVB explores how we design for longer lives across work, care, health, and community. LLVB brings together founders, researchers, and practitioners building ventures at the intersection of longevity, systems change, and emerging technologies such as AI.
Please be advised: Unfortunately, space is very limited at these events and we can not always accept everyone we would like to. We base acceptances based on levels of interest and passion demonstrated in registration question answers. If you are not accepted to this event, please try and come to another!