| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, April 27, 2022 | 4:30PM - 5:15PM | Online Event, Online Event |
Join us on April 27 at 4:30pm ET for the keynote lecture of the Munk School’s inaugural Fellows Symposium on the Reality and Risks of AI featuring Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, holder of the Smith-Zadeh Chair in Engineering, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI.
In his lecture, Professor Russell will survey recent and expected developments in AI and their implications — some enormously positive, while others, such as the development of autonomous weapons and the replacement of humans in economic roles, may be negative. Beyond these, one must expect that AI capabilities will eventually exceed those of humans across a range of real-world-decision making scenarios. Should this be a cause for concern, as Alan Turing, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, and others have suggested? And, if so, what can we do about it? While some in the mainstream AI community dismiss the issue, Professor Russell will argue that the problem is real and that the technical aspects of it are solvable if we replace current definitions of AI with a version based on provable benefit to humans. This, in turn, raises a host of questions with which the social sciences and humanities have wrestled for centuries.
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