10 Years of One Question | How do we successfully marry technology and humanity?
On the 23rd of September 2026, One Question celebrates its tenth anniversary by returning to the very first question we asked.
How do we successfully marry technology and humanity?
Ten years on, we return to the question to examine how AI is reshaping how we think, the systems we build, how value is created, how we relate to one another, and what this means in practice across business, institutions, and the way we live.
| 10 Years later
Sarah Parsonage, Founder of One Question, celebrates ten years of One Question, looking back on the questions we have asked and the answers we have found at the intersection of business, institution, policy and community and how it all started with technology.
| Human Behaviour
As intelligence becomes abundant, we explore what we choose to protect, what we choose to optimise for, and how both depend on human judgement. If machines can think alongside us, and in some cases for us, what does it mean to marry humanity and technology in how we think, question and understand each other?
| Systems and Infrastructure
AI is becoming embedded in the systems we rely on, from energy and finance to healthcare and education, reshaping society’s infrastructure at speed and scale. This conversation explores where opportunity and responsibility lie.
| How Value Is Created
A conversation on how value is created and captured as AI reshapes cost, growth, and market value, and what it takes to build and sustain advantage when the basis of competition is shifting in real time.
| AI Reshaping Trust Between Us
Trust is being reshaped as AI sits between us, changing how we relate to one another and whom we believe. What will it take to build and sustain relationships when credibility and judgement are no longer always direct, and the price we pay when we get it wrong?
| Many Answers
Sarah gathers reflections and shares many answers and core solutions to how, in 2026 and beyond, we marry technology and humanity.
| Closing Drinks Reception
Following the conversation, we publish our annual critical-thinking piece, reflecting on it and enabling our community to develop their own answers to the question of how we lead through uncertainty in 2026 and beyond.
One Question conversations are held under the Chatham House Rule.
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