FastForward Radio -- Achieving Friendly Artificial Intelligence
The World Transformed, Part 5
Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon welcome a panel of leading thinkers on artificial intelligence to explore these issues:
Archived recording available here:
About our guests:
Are
the robots going to take over?
The Matrix
and Terminator movies present a nightmare world in which
artificially intelligent machines pit themselves against humanity with
devastating consequences. Could something like that really
happen? Do we face a future in which machines that are smarter
and potentially much more powerful than human beings view us in a
hostile manner? Or will these machine be indifferent to us?
Or will
they be our friends?
Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon welcome a panel of leading thinkers on artificial intelligence to explore these issues:
In the near
future, is machine intelligence going to equal or overtake human
intelligence in terms of speed and capability?
If so, what can we do to make sure these new intelligences are on our side?
What are the implications of sharing our world with artificial intelligences who are as smart as (or much smarter than) we are?
If so, what can we do to make sure these new intelligences are on our side?
What are the implications of sharing our world with artificial intelligences who are as smart as (or much smarter than) we are?
Archived recording available here:
About our guests:
| Eliezer Yudkowsky is the world's foremost researcher on Friendly AI and recursive self-improvement. He is a research fellow with the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. | 
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| James Hughes is the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and he is the producer and host of the weekly syndicated public affairs talk show Changesurfer Radio | 
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| Ben Goertzel is the chief science officer and acting CEO of Novamente. He is the Director of Research for the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. | 
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Comments
Fascinating! I think that was the best of the couple dozen shows I've heard thus far.
Posted by: Shawn Thuris | July 22, 2009 07:55 PM