AI keynote speaker on AI agents and accountability.

Rahim Hirji is a London-based keynote speaker specialising in AI and human judgement, and the author of SuperSkills: The Seven Human Skills for the Age of AI (Kogan Page, 2026). He speaks on what changes when agents act rather than advise, and on who remains accountable once the pause between the recommendation and the act has gone. He founded the skills platform EtonX, later acquired by Eton College, and led Quizlet's international growth across more than 60 countries. The material is published in full before the room books it, including 1245 questions answered or marked open and 537 graded studies with what each does not establish.

The sequence. A system that answers gives a person something to reject before anything happens. A system that acts has already acted, so oversight becomes detection and repair rather than approval. Most existing oversight models assume a pause that agents remove, so they transfer badly.

Unsettled, and this research says so rather than offering false confidence. What can be stated: DIFC Regulation 10 in the UAE reasons that where an autonomous system operates for its deployer, its position is substantially similar to that of an employee, and makes the deployer liable accordingly. That is a liability analogy rather than a competence requirement, and it does not settle who inside the organisation must be able to explain the decision. The material is published in full before the room books it, including 1245 questions answered or marked open and 537 graded studies with what each does not establish.

No. It is about delegation, accountability and what happens to a team when agents do the coordination. For a technical briefing on how agents are built, this is the wrong speaker and the guide to choosing an AI keynote speaker will point you at a better fit.

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