Henrik: Machine learning can take data points that before just looked like random data points scattered about the person and form a very coherent picture of this person. And then you could use it to manipulate us in all kinds of ways. So that is a worry way before these systems become conscious. It's an open question what they will use it for. But the fact that they have this power is worrying itself, even if they never use it, just that they haveThis. We've already had a few years now of AI algorithm curating content on social media,. The content was at least created by humans, but it was curated by AI. Now AI will do both. I guess it will
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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