Dec 10, 2018
Today, we’re chatting with AI expert, activist, and author Toby Walsh. Toby is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales and Data61 with an educational background from the University of Cambridge and University of Edinburgh in mathematics, theoretical physics, and artificial intelligence. He has also been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and has chaired multiple AI conferences.
As an activist, Toby helped in the release of an open letter which gained over 20,000 signatures that called for a ban on offensive autonomous weapons. Toby is also the author of multiple books on artificial intelligence, the most recent of which is “2062: The World That AI Made” which we will discuss today.
Dr Walsh opens his thoughts on
the future of AI, when and how it could surpass humans, and how
little we know about how it could impact our jobs. Toby also
discusses with us other ways AI can impact society for better or
for worse. How can our data privacy impact AI and how can
microtargeting using this data change the course of history? What
ethics should we stand by? Who is responsible for decisions made by
autonomous machines? And could government regulation
actually help—rather than hinder—innovation?
For full show notes and resources head to: eliiza.com/podcast/episode-3