This year’s edition of the TNW conference is just around the corner – hopefully with summer. We have a spectacular lineup of speakers and can’t wait to share with you the special atmosphere that sets TNW apart from other tech conferences.
Ahead of the event, the editorial team will share some of their highlights and what not to miss from TNW’s flagship conference taking place in Amsterdam on June 20-21. We hope you are as excited as we are and can’t wait to see you there.
One of the sessions I’m really looking forward to attending this year is the panel “Humanism: The Philosophical Debate on the Ethics of AI.” It will take place between 12:30 p.m. and 1:10 p.m. on the main stage on day 1.
Panelists include Aliya Grig, founder of Evolve AI, which claims to build AI “closest to humans in terms of empathy, reasoning and cognitive skills” founder and CEO of “mad science incubator” Socos Labs Dr. Vivienne Ming, the “father of AGI” and CEO of SingularityNET Ben Goertzel, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association Gary Shapiro and Ekaterina Almasque, general partner of VC OpenOcean.
Shaping ethical AI systems
Like anyone who listened to the TNW Podcast on occasion, I will know, I am incredibly fascinated by theories of consciousness and mind – in fact, that’s how I became interested in the concept of AI to begin with. (I also once wrote a somewhat pretentious thesis on ethics and moral philosophy in college.)
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Human intelligence and cognition arise from interactions and processes far more complex than systems such as large linguistic models. Therefore, it is very unlikely that any particular path will be lead to human-level intelligence.
However, along with other types of systems, they will continue to shape our world in ways we may not even be able to perceive yet, becoming more and more ubiquitous until AI becomes something like a utility – like electricity, humming in the background.
It is therefore absolutely essential that those who train and implement AI do so in an ethical and impartial manner, so that all of society can benefit from the technology.
I look forward to hearing the panelists’ perspectives on the types of ethical frameworks and safeguards we need to implement to ensure that AI, general or otherwise, is fair and equitable. Who should decide their nature and who should be responsible for unethical or biased applications of AI systems?
Come take part in the debates that shape our future.
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