Sam Altman | Cambridge Union Hawking Fellowship 2023

Sam Altman accepts the 2023 Hawking Fellowship Award on behalf of the team behind OpenAI on Wednesday 1st November 2023 at 7:15pm in The Debating Chamber. The Union and the Professor Hawking Fellowship Committee are delighted to announce that the team behind OpenAI, the creators of Chat-GPT and DALL-E, have been jointly awarded the 2023 Professor Hawking Fellowship. The Fellowship Lecture was delivered by Mr Sam Altman, (then) CEO and Co-Founder of OpenAI, and took place in the Union chamber on the evening of Wednesday 1st November 2023. The Hawking family commented the following: "We are very excited that the Hawking Fellowship at the Cambridge Union has been awarded to OpenAI this year. Our father Stephen was deeply engaged with issues around AI and its potential impact on all aspects of society in the future. Many of his early comments on the new technology were extremely prescient and have been often quoted over the past year. We believe he would have been strongly in support of this award which brings the founders of OpenAI to Cambridge to debate their work and share their insights with students." ........................................................................................................................ The Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship was founded in 2017 by the Union in conjunction with the Hawking family to honour his legacy and celebrate his relationship with the students of Cambridge. The fellowship is awarded to an individual or team who has made significant impact on science, technology and its communication, with an emphasis on impacts affecting young people. The fellowship is presented at this event in our debating chamber during Michaelmas term, during which the fellow gives an address and to which we also welcome the scientific advisory panel and members of the Hawking family. Thumbnail Photographer: Nordin Catic .................................................................................................................. Connect with us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheCambridgeUnion Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cambridgeunion Twitter: https://twitter.com/cambridgeunion LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cambridge-union-society