Roy Green Show Podcast, June 24: Prof Yoshua Bengio, Is AI a Threat? – Frank Stronach, National Debt Impacting Future Generations. – Prof Ross McKitrick, The Truth About Forest Fires. – Prof Ali Asgary, Costs/Ethics of Rescuing Tourist Expeditions.

Today’s podcast:
The grave dangers posed by too quickly developing A.I. Could it lead to the end of the human race?
Guest: Professor Joshua Bengio. Founder and scientific director, Mila-Quebec AI Institute. Considered one of the godfathers of AI development. Professor Bengio's research helped to create the groundwork for our AI technology today. When/if AI surpasses our human intelligence might AI wipe out humanity? Professor Bengio is a signatory to a letter by international entities which in part reads "mitigating the risk of AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."
The national debt - a ticking time bomb for future generations.
Guest: Frank Stronach, founder of Magna International, one of Canada's largest global companies. Inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame. (NP op ed)
Professor Ross McKitrick Nat Post op ed: The truth about forest fires goes up in climate-change smoke. Forest fires, writes Mckitrick, peaked in the 1980's.
Guest: Ross McKitrick. Professor of Economics economics and CBE Fellow in Sustainable Commerce at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate.
Titanic submersible 'catastrophic implosion'. Our guest questions how much in the way of international, limited and expensive search and rescue resources should be deployed to attempt rescue operations for private adventure-seeking ventures.  
Guest: Professor Ali Asgary. Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management. York University, Toronto. (op ed The Conversation)
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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green
Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig and Tom McKay
Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor
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Today’s podcast:

The grave dangers posed by too quickly developing A.I. Could it lead to the end of the human race?

Guest: Professor Joshua Bengio. Founder and scientific director, Mila-Quebec AI Institute. Considered one of the godfathers of AI development. Professor Bengio's research helped to create the groundwork for our AI technology today. When/if AI surpasses our human intelligence might AI wipe out humanity? Professor Bengio is a signatory to a letter by international entities which in part reads "mitigating the risk of AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."

The national debt - a ticking time bomb for future generations.

Guest: Frank Stronach, founder of Magna International, one of Canada's largest global companies. Inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame. (NP op ed)

Professor Ross McKitrick Nat Post op ed: The truth about forest fires goes up in climate-change smoke. Forest fires, writes Mckitrick, peaked in the 1980's.

Guest: Ross McKitrick. Professor of Economics economics and CBE Fellow in Sustainable Commerce at the University of Guelph where he specializes in environment, energy and climate.

Titanic submersible 'catastrophic implosion'. Our guest questions how much in the way of international, limited and expensive search and rescue resources should be deployed to attempt rescue operations for private adventure-seeking ventures.  

Guest: Professor Ali Asgary. Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management. York University, Toronto. (op ed The Conversation)

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Host/Content Producer – Roy Green

Technical/Podcast Producer – Tom Craig and Tom McKay

Podcast Co-Producer – Matt Taylor

If you enjoyed the podcast, tell a friend! For more of the Roy Green Show, subscribe to the podcast!

https://globalnews.ca/roygreen/

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