74. Ethan Perez - Making AI safe through debate
Most AI researchers are confident that we will one day create superintelligent systems — machines that can significantly outperform humans across a wide variety of tasks. If this ends up happening, it...
10 Mar 202152min
73. David Roodman - Economic history and the road to the singularity
There’s a minor mystery in economics that may suggest that things are about to get really, really weird for humanity. And that mystery is this: many economic models predict that, at some point, human ...
3 Mar 20211h 8min
72. Margot Gerritsen - Does AI have to be understandable to be ethical?
As AI systems have become more ubiquitous, people have begun to pay more attention to their ethical implications. Those implications are potentially enormous: Google’s search algorithm and Twitter’s r...
24 Feb 20211h 22min
71. Ben Garfinkel - Superhuman AI and the future of democracy and government
As we continue to develop more and more sophisticated AI systems, an increasing number of economists, technologists and futurists have been trying to predict what the likely end point of all this prog...
17 Feb 20211h 8min
70. Sarah Williams - What does ethical AI even mean?
There’s no question that AI ethics has received a lot of well-deserved attention lately. But ask the average person what ethics AI means, and you’re as likely as not to get a blank stare. I think that...
10 Feb 202145min
69. Anders Sandberg - Answering the Fermi Question: Is AI our Great Filter?
The apparent absence of alien life in our universe has been a source of speculation and controversy in scientific circles for decades. If we assume that there’s even a tiny chance that intelligent lif...
3 Feb 20211h 5min
68. Silvia Milano - Ethical problems with recommender systems
One of the consequences of living in a world where we have every kind of data we could possible want at our fingertips, is that we have far more data available to us than we could possibly review. Won...
27 Jan 20211h
67. Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela - Responsible AI at Facebook
Facebook routinely deploys recommendation systems and predictive models that affect the lives of billions of people everyday. That kind of reach comes with great responsibility — among other things, t...
20 Jan 202150min
