Four talks. One day.

Is this AI’s Black Mirror Moment? –  Dr Karl Kruszelnicki ,Dr Micah Goldwater, Dr Jonathan Kummerfeld and Dr Anna Broinowski take us from hallucination in the algorithm to vulnerability in the human mind and unpack benefits and risks.

Is It Fascism Yet? – Professor Jason Stanley, an American expert on fascism and M Gessen, award-winning journalist who fled Putin’s Russia and now warns of echoes in the US, join acclaimed author Anna Funder for an urgent conversation on autocracy.

Live Journalism – For the first time, the Opera House will stage a live radio magazine show, hosted by crowd favourite Annabel Crabb.

Gender and Power – SOLD OUT – With ‘gender wars’ spreading across the western world placing lives at risk, M Gessen examines the dark forces behind gender panic and why it has fallen on such fertile ground.