CRASSH and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk are pleased to announce that Professor Stuart Russell (Berkeley) will be speaking on The Long-Term Future of (Artificial) Intelligence on Friday May 15th at 4:15pm at the Winstanley Lecture Theatre (Trinity). http://cser.org/event/future-of-ai/.
This event is free and open to all, but places are limited. Book your ticket here. Abstract: The news media in recent months have been full of dire warnings about the risk that AI poses to the human race, coming from well-known figures such as Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates. Should we be concerned? If so, what can we do about it? While some in the mainstream AI community dismiss these concerns, I will argue instead that a fundamental reorientation of the field is required. Professor Stuart Russell (Berkeley) is one of the biggest names in modern artificial intelligence worldwide. His Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (cowritten with Google's head of research, Peter Norvig) is a leading textbook in the field. He is also one of the most prominent people thinking about the long-term impacts and future of AI. He has raised concerns about the potential future use of fully autonomous weapons in war. Thinking longer-term, he has posed the question "What if we succeed" in developing strong AI, and suggests that success in this might represent the biggest event in human history. He has organised a number of prominent workshops and meetings around this topic, and this January wrote an open letter calling for a realignment of the field of AI towards research on safe and beneficial development of AI, now signed by a who's who of field leaders worldwide (http://futureoflife.org/misc/open_letter). Further information: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26219 CSER website: http://cser.org/event/future-of-ai/ A few nice pieces by or about Professor Russell: "The long-term future of AI" (from his own website): https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/research/future/ "Of myths and moonshine" - his response to the Edge.org question on the myth of AI: http://edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai#26015 "Concerns of an artificial intelligence pioneer" Interview in Quanta https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150421-concerns-of-an-artificial-intelligence-pioneer/ _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
