AI & the Faustian Bargain with Technological Change

AI & the Faustian Bargain with Technological Change - A. C. Grayling

Shared on 14/07/2017

AC Grayling weighs in on progress in Artificial Intelligence - this is the first time he has publicly discussed the issues he does in this interview.

"I think the thing that is going to change everything is machine learning; is artificial intelligence and robotics...this is an enormous dogs leg in human history in a way that the intelligence systems can teach themselves, can become even smarter than they are already."

Grayling is the author of about 30 books on philosophy, biography, history of ideas, human rights and ethics, including The Refutation of Scepticism (1985), The Future of Moral Values (1997), Wittgenstein (1992), What Is Good? (2000), The Meaning of Things (2001), The Good Book (2011), The God Argument (2013), and The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind (2016). He was a Trustee of the London Library and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts...

Published on Jul 8, 2017 on You Tube by Adam Ford

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