Debate: Artificial Intelligence Brings More Harm than Good

Professor Melanie Mitchell gives the Margaret Boden Lecture for 2023 at the University of Cambridge. The Margaret Boden lectures are held annually by the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Abstract: While AI has made dramatic progress over the last decade in areas such as vision, language processing, and robotics, current AI…

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….

PROPOSITION“AI research and development poses an existential threat.” SUMMARYWith 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,…

Sam Altman, the CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, testified Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law as the panel examines potential rules for the use of artificial intelligence. New York University professor emeritus Gary Marcus and Christina Montgomery, IBM’s chief privacy and trust officer, also testified at the hearing.

Dec 18, 2019Can A.I. make music? Can it feel excitement and fear? Is it alive? Will.i.am and Mark Sagar push the limits of what a machine can do. How far is too far, and how much further can we go? The Age of A.I. is a 8 part documentary series hosted by Robert Downey Jr….

Sep 26, 2024 KING’S PLACEIn the first lecture of the series, The Alan Turing Institute’s Head of Online Safety and AI for Public Services, Jonathan Bright, will explore how political campaigns are making use of AI and the challenges posed by deepfakes. He’ll also talk about fact-checking, content moderation and why it’s so important to…