In his new book christian says if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems what happens when ai itself becomes a problem . Computer science and poetry tackling the ethical and technological. His work has caught the attention of people like elon musk who said his book the human human was his night table reading. It questions whether its a replication of an epitope vias and how can we get a handle on technology before you lose control . He argues although with trained these decisions force eventually humans will need humans. Well be discussing a lot in the next hour and i want to ask your questions but if youre watching live with us please put your questions in the text chat on youtube so i can into end of the conversation today at the thank you brian welcome in thank you for joining us. Its why pleasure. Thank you for having me. This is not your first book of course could i want to ask the opening question and its not the type of question you ask an author bu
Alignment problem. Those theoretical contributions the bestselling book the most human human and his new book if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence what happens when ai itself becomes the problem with those implications and then from his 2011 book with the alignment problems it is the replication of human bias and argues although we train these to make decisions for us will be discussing a lot in the next hour and please put your questions and the text chat today thank you brian and welcome and thank you for joining us. This is not your first book. The obvious question why did you decide to tackle this topic now . Great question. The initial the for the book and as you mentioned vanity fair reported elon musk with the reading and i found myself in 2014 attending a Silicon Valley book talk with a bunch of investors and seeing the thing about elon musk reading the book of the invited him and to my surprise he came. There was a fascinating moment at the end of the dinner when
The Commonwealth Club of california. I am john zipperer, Vice President of media and editorial and a moderator for this program. We would like to thank our members, donors and supporters for making this and all of our programs possible. We are grateful for their support and we welcome others joined them and supporting the club drink these uncertain times. I am please be joined by brian christian, government author of the new book the alignment problem Machine Learning and human values. His best offer to first get a contribution to the Tech Industry and document in his best bestselling book the most human human and algorithms to live by. In his new book he poses questions such as every content neutral on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself becomes a problem . With degrees in philosophy, Computer Science and poetry, christian has spent his career tackling the ethical advancing society and become more reliant on technology. His work is got the attent
Brought to you by your television provider. Welcome to todays virtual program, from the Commonwealth Club of california. Im the clubs Vice President of media and your moderator for today. Wed like to thank our members, donors and supporters were making this and all of our programs possible. Were of course grateful and we welcome others joining us during these uncertain times. Today im pleased to be joined by brian christian, programmer and author of the new book the alignment problem, Machine Learning. Which was released last week. He discusses theoretical contributions documented in his bestselling book the most human humans and an outer of them to live by. Christians posing questions of if we continue to rely on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself is the problem. Hes a professor of philosophy and poetry, tackling the ethical and technological implications of a advanced society becomes more relianton technology. His work intersects elon musk in h
Hello and welcome to. Involving at a cost make and Artificial Intelligence no longer just a hollywood dream as a path ahead of us a dangerous one will our lives be real while im here in the universities all this questions to one of the most prominent thinkers in this field nick bostrom. Its really great to have you with us a year a philosopher a year author who writes about whats going to happen to us basically possibly. So one of the ideas that you put forward is this idea of vulnerable world yes so correct me if i were wrong but if i get this correctly its its basically that humanity may come up with a technology that may do this to extension and therefore we would need computer surveillance while that might be an oversimplification but the vulnerable world hypothesis. Is the hypothesis that at some level of Technological Development it gets to be said to destroy 6 basic things so that by default one civilization reaches the level of development. Will get that a stated. And there are