How Not To Destroy the World With AI

Lecture | April 5 | 12-1 p.m. |  Sutardja Dai Hall

Speaker/Performer:  Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley

Sponsor:  CITRIS and the Banatao Institute

It is reasonable to expect that artificial intelligence (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 and others have suggested? Will we lose control over our future? Or will AI complement and augment human intelligence in beneficial ways? It turns out that both views are correct, but they are talking about completely different forms of AI. To achieve the positive outcome, a fundamental reorientation of the field is required. Instead of building systems that optimize arbitrary objectives, we need to learn how to build systems that will, in fact, be beneficial for us. Russell will argue that this is possible as well as necessary. The new approach to AI opens up many avenues for research and brings into sharp focus several questions at the foundations of moral philosophy.

Event Contact:  daisyh@berkeley.edu, 510-829-2250

Access Coordinator:  Daisy Hernandez,  daisyh@berkeley.edu,  510-829-2250