The movie Meghan is about a 10-year-old girl who has this very tragic accident. She moves in with her mother's sister, and she is working developing robots. And so she gets this young girl, a robot, to keep her company - that is Meghan. So my question is, we skip the question whether they are conscious or not,. But if we can imagine a very sophisticated AI that you can program with a certain goal, how do we make sure that the AI doesn't use every mean, even the really dangerous means, to achieve that goal? It's Ishig Asimov's robotics laws in a way, but yeah, he also wrote a couple of novels
In part two of this partnership with the Swedish publishing house and ideas forum Fri Tanke we hear from Anders Ynnerman, Professor of Scientific Visualization at Linköping University and the Program Director of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP), and Henrik Kugelberg, Interdisciplinary ethics fellow Stanford University - who react to philosopher David Chalmer's keynote speech on VR, AI, and the Mystery of Consciousness.
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This event took place in May 2023 in Stockholm.
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