Artificial Intelligence and You

What do you, a citizen, need to know and do about AI in your life now and in the future? Enter the author of The Adaptable Mind; John Zerilli is a philosopher, a Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Research Associate in the Oxford Institute for Ethics in AI, and an Associate Fellow in the Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

We talk about his 2021 book A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence, which spells out the categories in which we should pay attention. In part 1, we'll be talking about what he wants to achieve with the book and how some of those issues, in particular, privacy, impact the average person today.

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

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

How could you know which countries are doing a good job with artificial intelligence, and which sites are the worst disinformation spreaders? Sounds incredibly useful but impossible to figure out, right? Alexandra Mousavizadeh of Tortoise Media in London has founded global indexes that answer those and other questions: The Global AI Index, the Responsibility100 Index, and the Global Disinformation Index. As Director of the Tortoise Intelligence team, her insights into geopolitical and industry conflicts and state of the art are highly prized by governments and multinationals.

In part 2, we talk about China's race for AI gold, and the global disinformation index.

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

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

How could you know which countries are doing a good job with artificial intelligence, and which sites are the worst disinformation spreaders? Sounds incredibly useful but impossible to figure out, right? Alexandra Mousavizadeh of Tortoise Media in London has founded global indexes that answer those and other questions: The Global AI Index, the Responsibility100 Index, and the Global Disinformation Index. As Director of the Tortoise Intelligence team, her insights into geopolitical and industry conflicts and state of the art are highly prized by governments and multinationals.

In part 1, we talk about the methodologies behind the indexes, their relationship to ESG, inequality, and the labor markets.

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

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

Training an AI to render accurate decisions for important questions can be useless and dangerous if it cannot tell you why it made those decisions. Enter explainability, a term so new that it isn't in spellcheckers but is critical to the successful future of AI in critical applications.

Michael Hind is a Distinguished Research Staff Member in the IBM
Research AI department in Yorktown Heights, New York.  His current
research passion is the area of Trusted AI, focusing on governance,
transparency, explainability, and fairness of AI systems.  He helped launch several successful open source projects, such as
AI Fairness 360 and AI Explainability 360.

In part 2, we talk about the Teaching Explainable Decisions project, some of Michael’s experience with Watson, the difference between transparency and explainability, and a lot more. 

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

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

Training an AI to render accurate decisions for important questions can be useless and dangerous if it cannot tell you why it made those decisions. Enter explainability, a term so new that it isn't in spellcheckers but is critical to the successful future of AI in critical applications.

Before I talked with Michael Hind, my usual remark on the subject was, "If you want a demonstration of the ultimate futility of explainability, try asking your kid how the vase got broken." But after this episode I've learned more than I thought possible about how we can teach AI what an explanation is and how to produce one.

Michael is a Distinguished Research Staff Member in the IBM
Research AI department in Yorktown Heights, New York.  His current
research passion is the area of Trusted AI, focusing on governance,
transparency, explainability, and fairness of AI systems.  He helped launch several successful open source projects, such as
AI Fairness 360 and AI Explainability 360.

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

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

From AI in farming to AI in defense, Kordel France has done it, as an AI engineer and now founder and CEO of Seekar Technologies, which is building the first clinical AI tool used to advise neuropsychologists in diagnosing mental disorders. There are a lot of surprises in this episode as we talk about explainability, artificial general intelligence, and the fragility of image recognition AI, among other things.

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

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

From AI in farming to AI in defense, Kordel France has done it, as an AI engineer and now founder and CEO of Seekar Technologies, which contributed AI to help ease demand on medical staffing and screen for COVID-19 faster. There are a lot of surprises - AI In hunting? - in this episode.

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

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.

Jonathan Rowson is a chess grandmaster who was three times British champion, writing books including "The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life." He is now a "philosophical activist" working on "an urgent one hundred year project to improve the relationships between systems, souls, and society" at Perspectiva.  

Last week we talked about the impact of computers on the game of chess and the people who play it. This week we make the connection with Jonathan's career as a philosopher and how he intends Perspectiva to make a difference. He'll tell us about their antidebates: "Most of us don’t only disagree with each other, we disagree with ourselves. That’s a very important premise for the antidebate. The main battle is within your own reckoning with a difficult question."

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

Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.