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In Our Own Image

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In Our Own Image

The B-Word Podcast

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5 mins. de lectura
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Can humanity trust complex AI systems as the pace of technological change accelerates? Learn how AI is disrupting common understandings of intelligence and gain insight into the existential risks AI systems pose.

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Is the emergence of generative AI ushering in a dystopian future, in which humans lose their agency to machines, or is it paving the way for new utopian realities, supporting humans in finding solutions to complex problems, such as global hunger? According to AI researcher George Zarkadakis, the answer to that question depends entirely on the narratives that humanity tells about AI. In this episode of The B-Word podcast hosted by strategic adviser James Healy, Zarkadakis explains how humanity’s understanding of intelligence shapes its perception of AI’s role and potential impact. Gain insight into “the hard problem of consciousness” and reflect on whether it’s safe to trust AI systems as they scale exponentially.

Summary

Humanity’s understanding of complex AI systems reflects a subjective understanding of intelligence.

AI functions as a mirror, and the ways humans design AI systems reflect their own understanding of consciousness and intelligence. Human creators have long had a fascination with their own mortality and the potentially finite nature of consciousness itself, prompting those designing AI systems to create disembodied forms of intelligence. By creating artificial intelligences that will outlive them, humans feel a sense of immortality, pushing the boundaries of consciousness by positioning it as a potentially downloadable phenomenon. However, the human understanding of AI better reflects an ideal of human intelligence and biases more than it captures the reality of how complex intelligent systems operate.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche maintained that human nature is driven by two opposing forces: the Apollonian drive toward rationality and the Dionysian drive toward chaos and impulsive behavior. The narrative people tell themselves about computers is that they reflect the Apollonian...

About the Podcast

George Zarkadakis is the author of In Our Own Image: Will Artificial Intelligence Save Us or Destroy Us? He is a futurist, AI engineer, and fiction author, with a PhD from City University, London in artificial intelligence in medicine. Host of The B-Word podcast James Healy is founder and managing director of The Behaviour Boutique.

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