Fi is looking for experts on AI and robotics for a series of hour long PassW0rd radio programmes on the issue of the ramifications of AI on society. The interviews will be added to material being gathered at its conference in central London on the 24th of May: ‘Artificial Intelligence – living and working in an AI world’.
For more details on the conference click on www.futureintelligencethinking2017.sched.com or if you are interested in becoming involved or sponsoring the debate contact Melissa Wills at [email protected]
The theme of the conference is our relationship with technology and how technology should be evolved in the future. We will be looking at the ramifications of artificial intelligence on our lives and examining whether the headlong development of AI is in the best interests of humanity.
The conference is divided into three parts limits, life and leisure.
The aim will be to see whether it is necessary to have curbs on AI so that it develops in a way that gives the interests of humanity priority over the development of AI given that according to the Bank of England and Oxford University have suggested that one third of all jobs will be lost to AI by 2024.
So we will be discussing how the job market and the economy of the future will work in a world where people are increasingly being replaced by machines and whether there is now a need for the development of a living wage to pay people for their redundancy, and if that is the case what will people do in the future to occupy themselves?
We will examine whether the development of AI will simply accelerate a situation where people become more and more subservient to the machine and where increasingly the AIs will start to invade our minds in search of the big data that they need, where people will actually participate in their own redundancy as the machines begin to discover what makes us tick.
The conference will provide a realistic assessment of where AI development currently is and at what pace we can expect that development to continue.
We will also be assessing whether we are actually on a path to the cyborg, particularly given Elon Musk’s recent statement that there is now a need to develop a brain computer interface simply to let us compete with AIs by being able to absorb them.
Thus we will be also be debating the move towards love and sex with robots, and whether this is a desirable development given the likelihood that it may lead to some very unhealthy psychological conditions.
I would like to interview people who can provide insight into the world that will be developed by AI and what politicians and policy makers need to do to ensure that AI works for people.
