Advocates for AI defend it as manageable and say the risks are marginal, and the rewards life-improving, by empowering more people with instant information. But critics warn about transparency gaps and power disparities, including a slippery slope into a digital apocalypse where superintelligent machines surpass humans’ ability to control them. Watch as four experts weigh in on the future of AI.
00:00 - Artificial Intelligence
00:53 - Opening Remarks
05:25 - Speaker Intros
06:31 - Muthoni Wanyoike
14:37 - Dex Torricke-Barton
24:35 - Nick Bostrom
33:22 - Joy Buolamwini
47:11 - Govina Clayton (Connector)
52:46 - Majlis
1:10:21 - Voting Results
1:11:05 - Audience Questions
PROPOSITION
"AI research and development poses an existential threat."
SUMMARY
With the debut of ChatGPT, the AI once promised in some distant future seems to have suddenly arrived with the potential to reshape our working lives, culture, politics and society. For proponents of AI, we are entering a period of unprecedented technological change that will boost productivity, unleash human creativity and empower billions in ways we have only begun to fathom. Others think we should be very concerned about the rapid and unregulated development of machine intelligence. For their detractors, AI applications like ChatGPT herald a brave new world of deep fakes and mass propaganda that could dwarf anything our democracies have experienced to date. Immense economic and political power may also concentrate around the corporations who control these technologies and their treasure troves of data. Finally, there is an existential concern that we could, in some not-so-distant future, lose control of powerful AIs who, in turn, pursue goals that are antithetical to humanity’s interests and our survival as a species.
DEBATERS
Open AI’s Sam Altman - formerly CEO until his departure in November 2023 - sits down with Azeem Azhar to give his perspective on the evolution of artificial intelligence and its impact on politics, education and inequality.
Sam Altman is the co-founder and CEO of OpenAI, the AI research and deployment company behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Altman was president of the early-stage startup accelerator Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit research lab with the mission to build general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Altman gives advice for aspiring AI entrepreneurs and shares his insights about the opportunities and risks of AI tools and artificial general intelligence.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries and society - and a global race has taken off for who will create the most cutting-edge technology.
The outcome could reshape the global balance of powers. At the moment, the United States and China stand as the leading contenders. Europe, meanwhile, finds itself lagging behind. But the continent is eager to catch up, and it has a plan: Officials hope that a strong emphasis on
transparency and fairness in AI development will set European AI apart and provide an edge in the years to come.
However, the question remains: Can these European initiatives compete with the vast resources that Big Tech companies pour into AI research? And will the EU's ethics-first approach to AI become a competitive advantage in the global race for AI - or will it set Europe even further
behind?
0:00 The race for AI supremacy
0:51 Using AI to make cities more liveable
4:19 Can AI help cure cancer?
7:49 How the EU plans to govern AI
9:10 Transforming societies with big data
11:02 Will strict AI rules set Europe back?
15:11 Fighting cyber attacks and brain drain with AI
19:46 Europe: Winner or loser in the race for AI?
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