Speaker Bio: Sam Illingworth is Professor of Critical AI Literacy at Edinburgh Napier University, a job title that did not exist when he started out measuring greenhouse gases from satellites. His PhD is in atmospheric physics. He spent his early career pointing instruments at the sky, and his later career working out why almost nobody outside the room cared what those instruments found. That second question took him from physics into science communication, and from science communication into poetry, games, and now AI. He writes Slow AI, a newsletter read by more than 20,000 people, about knowing when to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone. The accompanying book reached number one in Education on Amazon. He has performed poetry at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Green Man, had work staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and in 2023 received the European Geosciences Union's Katia and Maurice Krafft Award for innovative engagement. He is Chief Executive Editor of Geoscience Communication, founded the interdisciplinary journal Consilience, which now runs on 86 volunteers across six continents, and sits on REF 2029 Sub-panel 23. Underneath all of it is the same question: who gets to decide what counts as knowledge, and what happens when we hand that decision to a machine.