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Speaker: Dr Stuart Armstrong, Oxford University
About the event
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the least understood global risks. While there is considerable uncertainty associated with AI, there are reasons to suspect that an AI with human-comparable skills could be a major risk factor. How do we assess the potential risk and develop policy and regulatory frameworks to guide future development?
Before assessing the risk, we need to investigate the likelihood and even the possibility of dangerous AI. What probabilistic and conceptual tools can we use here? What are the opinions of experts on the subject? Is expert opinion likely to be valid? Can we use argument and philosophical tools to at least get some sorts of bounds on the subject?
This talk will show you that though short term AI is susceptible to estimation using various tools, long term AI is extremely uncertain - but this uncertainty is worrying, rather than reassuring. Despite the uncertainty, assessing and reducing the risk to some significant degree is possible.
Agenda
18.00 - 18.30 Registration
18.30 - 20.00 Presentation and Q&A
20.00 - 21.00 Networking over nibbles and drinks
About the speaker
Stuart Armstrong's D.Phil was in parabolic geometry, calculating the holonomy of projective and conformal Cartan geometries. He later transitioned into computational biochemistry, designing several new ways to rapidly compare putative bioactive molecules for virtual screening of medicinal compounds.
His current research at the Future of Humanity Institute centres on formal decision theory, general existential risk, the risks and possibilities of Artificial Intelligence, assessing expertise and predictions, and anthropic (self-locating) probability. He has been working on several methods of analysing the likelihood of certain outcomes and in making decisions under the resulting uncertainty, as well as specific measures for reducing AI risk. His booklet "Smarter than Us: the rise of machine intelligence" lays out some of the challenges in this area and why it is an important focus.
CPD
CPD18.00 - 18.30 Registration
18.30 - 20.00 Presentation and Q&A
20.00 - 21.00 Networking over nibbles and drinks.
Location
Address
Room 2003, Cass Business School, 106 Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8TZ
Nearest Public Transport
Barbican tube station