Exploring the Interplay Between AI Safety and Ethics

Ethics and machine intelligence pioneer Nell Watson speaks to host Jon Krohn about the differences between AI ethics and AI safety, how crying wolf may result in future complications for AI development and the importance of ensuring IEEE standards to mitigate and regulate AI risks. She also touches on what she considers a “second Enlightenment”, in which we may start to form intimate relationships with AI—to both parties’ benefit.

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In this episode you will learn:
• AI ethics and AI safety [05:30]
• How "moving fast" could break the world [18:07]
• The shifting relationship between humans and machines [29:54]
• International ethics standards, and their review process [52:10]
• Current and future ethical standards [1:05:31]
• Building a universal basic income with AI [1:19:23]

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