Should we be scared of AI?

AI technologies are becoming increasingly intertwined with our everyday lives. From healthcare, transportation and manufacturing to education, we are already in an entangled web of connection with AI being increasingly used by individuals and organisations, often without conscious awareness. Whilst we can see AI as being a really supportive tool to address so many of the challenges of modernity, to what extent is it actually robbing us of our humanity?

This conversation is tricky, emotive and deeply complex. Whilst there are so many positive shifts and evolutions that AI can support us with and lots to appreciate, many of the downsides and dangers are only just being realised with the potential threats of generative AI and a super-intelligence beginning to come to life. We are choosing to open a very complex can of worms in this conversation and begin to dance through some of the conflicting feelings, possibilities and questions that arise when thinking about the past, present and future of AI.

In this episode we reference the following:

• AI: What could go wrong? The Weekly Show - Jon Stewart, Geoffry Hinton (podcast video)
• AI 2027 - D Kokotajlo, S Alexander, T Larsen, E Lifland, R Dean (Website)
• Teenagers and AI relationships - Guardian Newspaper (article)
• Burnout from Humans - Aiden Cinnamon Tea & Dorothy Ladybugboss (ebook)
• Wayfarers and Monk & Robot - Becky Chambers (novel series)
• AI & Happiness - Mo Gowdat (website)
• Healing through ChatGPT? Insights from Research into Real-Life Experiences of AI Therapy - Steve Siddals (research)
• We Could Win the Climate Fight…Thanks to AI | Life With Machines (ep.12) - Gavin McCormick and Baratunde Thurston (podcast video)
• AI: how can we control an alien intelligence? - Yuval Noah Harari and Stephen Fry (interview)
• AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Generative AI Explained - IBM (video)

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