Perspectives: Episode 83 – The Ethics, Morality and Risks of Investing in Artificial Intelligence - Part 1

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Toby Walsh is a professor and the Chief Scientist at UNSW’s new AI Institute and has spent the past 40 years researching artificial intelligence. He is the author of several books on AI including “2062: The world that AI made”. This presentation will discuss questions such as can we trust AI or will it increasingly deceive us? How can we ensure AI is harnessed as a force for good rather than for nefarious ends?</span></p> <p><span style= "font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style= "mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In Part 1</span> <span style="mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">of this two-part podcast, we will be talking to Toby about the decisions that machines make, the biases that are embedded in them and the military use of AI and the implications it has for geopolitics.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;" xml:lang= "EN-US">(2:22) - Are we becoming less intelligent while the machines are becoming more intelligent? Or are we freeing up capacity to turn our mind to other, more important, tasks?</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;" xml:lang= "EN-US">(5:27) - Can machines make better decisions than humans?</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;" xml:lang= "EN-US">(7:45) - You talk about how the machines can make better decisions, but there’s also the nefarious side, such as the privacy issue of being monitored and now the machines can do facial recognition.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style= "font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;