About this talk

In this lecture, we look at proposals to limit AI powers and impacts, so bad outcomes are outweighed by social benefits from the technology. I'll explain design processes (such as Human-Centred AI and Responsible AI) and technological approaches for AI system qualities like trustworthiness, explainability and "human in the loop". We will explore how we, as individuals, can use AI based systems in discerning ways; and look at what governments can do to help their citizens thrive in an AI-future. Over the course of this lecture series, we have explored a set of unsettling possibilities about artificial intelligence. In the last lecture, "Born Supremacy", we paused that trajectory and asked a more useful question: not what AI might become, but what we are. The answer that emerged was that human intelligence is not merely about performance, but about inhabitation. It is embodied, situated, and bound up with consequence and responsibility. This leads us to an important distinction between AI and ourselves, one that allows us to constructively think about how we might live alongside it. If AI is not a being in the way we are, then what is it? My central claim in this lecture is simple but useful: AI is best understood not as an intelligence to rival us, but as a form of power. And like all transformative powers throughout history, it can – and must - be tamed.

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