The Power of Technology

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Lemoine is worried about the possibility that what he considers to be an agent identified AI could perpetrate all sorts of dastardly things on us. I don't share his view that this is a conscious entity that's going to, you know, actively seek our demise. But I am worried about its capability to enter our lives and interfere with all sorts of things that we naturally do - it already has tremendously significant power. We have this power with which we can't really be trusted.

A.I. is no longer the stuff of science fiction. From Siri and Alexa to Chat GPT, our world is now inundated with artificial intelligence. One senses that it’s time to think more deeply about A.I. — its implications and its assumptions.

In this episode, you'll hear an excerpt from a Forum event at Iowa State University from March 2023. Josh Swamidass (WashU), a medical doctor and computer scientist, discusses the role of artificial intelligence today with Clark Wolf (Iowa State), a bioethicist and philosopher. Their conversation is moderatored by Alex Tuckness (Iowa State), a political science professor.

Watch the full Forum event here.
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