Futureproof Extra: The Dangers & Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

English - June 13, 2023 06:30 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Recently hundreds of leading technology experts, journalists, and policymakers from across the world released a statement saying that: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war”.

But as we are just now beginning to grapple with this brave new world of generative artificial intelligence it can still be difficult to know what the future might actually hold for us, what role AI will have in our lives, and where the danger really lies.

Patricia Scanlon, Ireland’s AI ambassador, and founder of Dublin-based speech recognition tech company SoapBox Labs joins Jonathan to discuss.