Special edition
Sarah Brin worries about economic growth being prioritized over labor rights. Ryan Carrier fears the concentration of power among a few. Roger Spitz highlights the rapid tech progress outpacing our awareness. Richard Bazer Yates discusses the lack of emotional intelligence in AI. Nadia Piet warns about AI-driven narratives. Mark Coeckelbergh fears totalitarian uses of AI, while Mark Steen focuses on the climate crisis. Wendell Wallach is concerned about poor decisions by a few and AI's cognitive misattributions. Alex Schwarzman points to copyright issues in generative AI. Lastly, Dr. Marie Oldfield sees AI as a challenge with potential benefits, advocating for its ethical and political management.
Thanks to our guests who made this episode possible:
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Conference organizer Karen Rudolph highlighted the successful turnout and the high level of technical and business engagement. Various speakers, including those from law firms, insurance companies, data science startups, and academic institutions, shared insights on global AI regulations, the importance of ethical frameworks in research, and the integration of AI in business. Key points include the need for transparency, explainability, fairness, and governance in AI.
Reid Blackman describes AI as software learning by example, Madhulika emphasizes pattern prediction, Sarah Brin discusses various intelligences, and Roger Spitz highlights AI’s role in human-like functions. Ryan Carrier touches on the complexity of defining AI, Ricardo Baeza-Yates sees AI as mimicking the human brain, and Mark Coeckelbergh explores AI narratives. Harriet Pellereau notes AI's lack of emotions, Josh Geller critiques striving for human-like AI, Dr. Marie Oldfield argues AI doesn’t truly exist, Marc Steen considers AI as tools, Guy Gadney finds the term overly broad, and Mitchell Ondili defines AI as a family of technologies. This question underscores AI's multifaceted and evolving definition.
Thanks to our guests who made this episode possible:
Shout out to some other great podcasts I've been listening to recently:
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Thanks again to DFA for having us all. Find more information about the event here: https://datasciencefestival.com/session/ai-ethics/
You can also watch the recording on their youtube channel here:
As well as our previous panel hosting session here:
Amandine Flachs is the CEO & co-founder of WildMeta. After supporting startups founders for more than 10 years, she is now looking to help game developers create smarter and more human-like game AIs using machine learning. Amandine is still involved in the startup ecosystem as a mentor, venture scout and through her series of live AMAs with early-stage entrepreneurs. She can be found on Twitter @AmandineFlachs.
Dr Richard A. Bartle is Honorary Professor of Computer Game Design at the University of Essex, UK. He is best known for having co-written in 1978 the first virtual world, MUD, the progenitor of the £30bn Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game industry. His 1996 Player Types model has seen widespread adoption by MMO developers and the games industry in general. His 2003 book, Designing Virtual Worlds, is the standard text on the subject, and he is an influential writer on all aspects of MMO design and development. In 2010, he was the first recipient of the prestigious Game Developers' Conference Online Game Legend award. https://mud.co.uk
Dr Tommy Thompson has over 15 years experience in artificial intelligence research in games, Tommy sought to provide a more accessible format for his area of expertise to those without the same scholarly background.
Releasing the first AI and Games YouTube episode in 2014, Tommy has continued to build upon this small platform to form a company around it. With the YouTube channel amassing over 5 million views and 100,000 subscribers, the fundamentals of what AI and Games has sought to do has never changed. Educate developers and students on how best to utilise AI in their games.
Featuring:
- Kate Devlin
- Alan Winfiled
- Marija Slavkovick
- Cennydd Bowles
- Carissa Véliz
- Mercedes Bunz
- Dylan Doyle-Burke
- Luciano Floridi
- Julia Mossbridge
In this episode we also mention:
You can also get in contact with us here: hello@machine-ethics.net
Thanks again to our interviewees:
- Jess Smith
- Rishal Hurbans
- Jacob Turner
- Cennydd Bowles
- Joanna J Bryson
- Damien Williams
- Olivia Gamelin
- David Gunkel
- Bertram Malle
- David Yakobovitch
- Luciano Floridi
- Lydia Nicholas.
In this episode I also put a shout out to AI related podcasts:
As well as episodes I (Ben Byford), have appeared.
Thanks again to ORGcon for getting me to come down to record. Had a great day of chats with lots of interesting people on human rights in the age of digital technologies. Thank you to everyone who allowed me to record them, check out more on the patreon.
ORGcon Website: https://orgcon.openrightsgroup.org/
Main stage youtube link - includes Snowden speech: https://youtu.be/hjLwFgVRizg
We hear from past interviewees:
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Links from participants:
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To find out more about CogX go to their website CogX.co
Thank you Josie Swords and to everyone else who appeared on this months podcast. Special thanks to the team at CogX for inviting me.
