The Rip Current Can AI Be Ethical? (with Olivia Gambelin)
AI ethics consultant Olivia Gambelin has been fighting to make her clients in Silicon Valley understand that good ethics are good business, and to make regulators in Europe see that good business can also have good ethics. It’s a tough gig.
Gambelin, who advises both AI companies in Silicon Valley and regulators in Brussels, talks techno-solutionism, the challenges of implementing ethical AI practices when there’s always that one evangelist in the room trying to go too far too fast, and her worries about what she considers the top truly unacceptable category of AI product out there today.
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00:00 Introduction to Techno Solutionism
00:44 Meet Olivia Gambelin: AI Ethics Consultant
01:56 Olivia’s Journey: From Bay Area to Brussels
08:19 The Role of Ethical Intelligence
14:38 Challenges in AI Implementation
21:50 The Future of AI in the Workplace
32:51 Introduction to AI Regulation in Brussels
34:05 Cultural Differences in AI Regulation
36:29 Challenges in European AI Literacy
38:32 Behavioral Science and AI Manipulation
44:22 Ethics in AI: Business vs. Regulation
51:17 The Need for AI Regulation in the US
56:00 Ethical Boundaries in AI Applications
01:00:53 Positive Applications of AI
01:05:18 Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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