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Professor Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London 
Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:30
Minds Like Ours: An Approach to Artificial Intelligence Risk
- đ¤ Speaker: Professor Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London đ Website
- đ Date & Time: Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00 - 17:30
- đ Venue: Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, University of Cambridge
Abstract
Writers who speculate about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and its attendant risks often caution against anthropomorphism, the tendency to ascribe human-like characteristics to something non human. An AI that is engineered from first principles will attain its goals in ways that would be hard to predict, and therefore hard to control, especially if it is able to modify and improve on its own design. However, this is not the only route to human-level AI. An alternative is to deliberately set out to make the AI not only human-level but also human-like. The most obvious way to do this is to base the architecture of the AI on that of the human brain. But this path has its own difficulties, many pertaining to the issue of consciousness. Do we really want to create an artefact that is not only capable of empathy, but also capable of suffering?
Series This talk is part of the Existential Risk Seminar Series series.
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