Overview

⏱️Schedule:  Doors 18:30 → Talk 19:00→ Q&A → Mingle
🗣️ Language: English

 AI carries genuine democratic promise — it can widen access to knowledge, improve civic understanding, and help more people engage with political life. But it also has a darker side: disinformation, synthetic media, voter manipulation, and the corrosion of trust in public reality.

AI doesn't create these impulses from nothing. It amplifies a struggle already present in society — between democratic inclusion and authoritarian control. That's why the central question isn't whether AI is good or bad. It's how we govern its use, and whose interests it's made to serve.

Larissa Meredith-Flister is a London-based litigator specialising in competition law, digital markets, and the legal implications of emerging technologies. She regularly speaks on how AI is rendering us powerless as data subjects — and what that means for democracy.

What we'll cover

• The democratic promise of AI: widening access to knowledge and civic participation
• The darker side: disinformation, synthetic media, and voter manipulation
• Why AI amplifies existing tensions between democratic inclusion and authoritarian control
• The real question: not good or bad, but how AI is governed — and in whose interest

Speaker

Larissa Meredith-Flister

Litigator — Competition, Digital Markets & AI Law | LL.M., University of Cambridge

Larissa Meredith-Flister is a London-based litigator whose practice focuses on complex disputes across competition law, digital markets, collective proceedings, and privacy. Before practising in London, she clerked at the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan for both the former and current Chief Justice. She holds a Master of Laws from the University of Cambridge. Alongside her legal practice, she speaks and writes on how artificial intelligence and digital surveillance are affecting democratic institutions and individual privacy rights. 

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