Can We Keep Artificial Intelligence From Slipping Beyond Our Control?
Physicist Stephen Hawking and technology innovator Elon Musk have raised concerns about artificial intelligence becoming much smarter than humans. Other thoughtful commentators are raising questions about robots filling a large share of today’s jobs and lethal autonomous weapons.
• Why are these warnings coming now?
• Should we embrace or be fearful of smart machines and their societal impact?
• How can the development of robots and AI be managed and shaped through ethics, engineering, and oversight?
Dr. Solomon describes ongoing research at Hastings that brings scientists, social scientists, and bioethicists together who hold dramatically different views about how best to responsibly develop artificial intelligence. Dr. Solomon’s guest will be Wendell Wallach, principal investigator of a new Hastings research project on the ethics, engineering, and governance of artificial intelligence. Wallach chairs the Technology and Ethics study group at the Yale University Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and is a Senior Advisor at The Hastings Center. He is the author of A Dangerous Master: How to keep technology from Slipping Beyond our Control (BASIC BOOKS) and Moral Machines, Teaching Robots Right From Wrong (Oxford University Press, 2010).
