Artificial Intelligence and You

AI runs not just broadly across human interest, but deeply. And at every level it seems to create paradoxes. How can it be useful without power; how can it be safe with power. We want it to take over jobs, but still leave us with meaning and purpose. We deny it the possibility of becoming sentient, but how can we trust something that lacks compassion? My guest today has written a whole book on these paradoxes. Calling from Sweden is Virginia Dignum, professor of responsible artificial intelligence at Umeå University, and the author of the 2019 book Responsible Artificial Intelligence. She’s an internationally recognized expert in AI ethics and policy who has led initiatives for the European Commission, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, UNESCO, and UNICEF, among others. And we are talking about her new book, The AI Paradox: How to Make Sense of a Complex Future.

We talk about the issues of ethical choices and power that AI raises, where the difference between humans and LLMs matters, Viriginia’s path to the work she’s doing and her book, and our trend to techno-solutionism and what it means for us.

All this plus our usual look at today's AI headlines!

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.