Artificial Intelligence: The Risks Could Outweigh the Rewards
What Is Artificial Intelligence?
Clip: James Hughes, Jaron Lanier, and Andrew Keen try to zero in on a definition of what artificial intelligence really is.
Who Benefits from Google?
Clip: Martine Rothblatt and Andrew Keen debate whether Google's search algorithm can be defined as artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and Consciousness
Clip: Jaron Lanier worries that tech companies will make the rules of what counts as a conscious intelligence, and James Hughes argues it is a matter of law and public policy.
Why We Shouldn't Trust the Promise of AI
Andrew Keen, author of "The Internet Is Not the Answer," and Jaron Lanier, author of "Who Owns the Future?" argue FOR the motion "Don't Trust the Promise of Artificial Intelligence."
Why We Should Trust the Promise of AI
James Hughes, Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and Martine Rothblatt, transhumanist and author of Virtually Human argue AGAINST the motion "Don't Trust the Promise of Artificial Intelligence."
Debate Details
As technology rapidly progresses, some proponents of artificial intelligence believe that it will help solve complex social challenges and offer immortality via virtual humans. But AI’s critics are sounding the alarm, going so far as to call its development an “existential threat” to mankind. Is this the stuff of science fiction? Could the “Terminator” become reality, or will these fears prevent the next technological revolution?
The Debaters
For the motion
Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, author, and composer, best known for his work in virtual reality research, a term he coined and popularized... Read More
Andrew Keen
Andrew Keen is an Internet entrepreneur and the author of three books: The Internet Is Not the Answer (2015), Digital Vertigo: How Todays Social... Read More
Against the motion
James Hughes
James Hughes, PhD, is the executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. A bioethicist and sociologist, he serves as the... Read More
Martine Rothblatt
Martine Rothblatt is the chairman and CEO of United Therapeutics, a biotechnology company, and the author of Virtually Human: The Promise and Peril... Read More
Where Do You Stand?
- AI threatens to fundamentally alter the human way of life and should not be developed without adequate planning and foresight.
- To say that algorithms can mimic consciousness is to devalue what it means to be human.
- Cheap AI labor may replace human labor and deepen the economic inequality between business owners and human laborers.
- A self-aware and self-evolving machine could challenge humans for critical resources.
- Fear of the unknown should not prevent the next wave of the technological and human progress.
- AI is a potentially life-saving tool that can help cure disease and eradicate human-to-human warfare.
- If precautions and regulations are put in place, "human friendly" AI can be developed to serve humans rather than threaten them.
- AI technology can preserve the minds of our loved ones as well as society's greatest intellectuals and leaders.
Results
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The Discussion