🎧 Beneficial Artificial Intelligence

My conversation with Stuart Russell

Hi everybody,

I recently had a conversation with a renowned AI researcher Stuart Russell. We discuss:

• The connection between the dominant branch of AI theory and Aristotelian thought. 

• How very simple content selection and recommendation algorithms have nearly destroyed the Western democracy.

• What form might be assumed by an AI development and application regulator, including the need for decisions by such a body to be informed by social science disciplines. 

• The increasingly explicit discussion in AI fields around values, and the choices we make about which values "count". 

• The potential for satellite data and AI to support the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

You can listen to the podcast here or on the platform of your choice (just search for Exponential View). 

Read the extended transcript, which includes unaired discussions, below.

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