A recent presentation by Dr Scott Turner of the University of Northampton to BCS Northampton branch discussed the idea of Benevolent Machine Learning. This can be summarised as
- we don't know whether machine learning (and by extension AI) is going to be good, but we can try to ensure by taking issues around the safety of machine learning seriously and put steps in places to stop it being a problem.
The slides are available below:
The talks lead to an interesting and wide-ranging discussion; which the speaker would like to pass on his thanks to all those who took part for.
Two books that the speaker mentioned that provide a good background to this area:
The title of the came from a modification of phrase in Max Tegmarks's book Life 3.0 which is discuss the concept of Benevolent Artifical Intelligence.
The other book mentioned is the brilliant and accessible book Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry, which provides balanced arguments on this area.
All views and opinions are the author's and do not necessarily reflected those of any organisation they are associated with. Twitter: @scottturneruon
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