John Lennox on What (Not) to Expect of AI in 2084
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English - July 27, 2020 00:00 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MB - ★★★★ - 508 ratingsScience biology controversy creationism csc culture darwin Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On this episode of ID the Future, host Robert Marks interviews Oxford University mathematician John Lennox on Lennox’s new book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. It’s a wide-ranging discussion about AI’s advantages already being realized, in medicine, for example; AI’s supposed potential to achieve human-like consciousness; ethical issues that AI programmers will have to grapple with; effects that AI will have on the economy and individual workers; and the risks associated with living in an AI world where every movement is tracked. A key question as we move toward this future, says Lennox, is what does it mean to be human?