Peg Skorpinski

The Long-Term Future of (Artificial) Intelligence

Fri 15 May 2015

Winstanley Lecture Theatre

Professor Stuart Russell (Berkeley) is one of the biggest names in modern artificial intelligence worldwide. His Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (cowritten with Google's head of research, Peter Norvig) is a leading textbook in the field.

He is also one of the most prominent people thinking about the long-term impacts and future of AI. He has raised concerns about the potential future use of fully autonomous weapons in war. Thinking longer-term, he has posed the question "What if we succeed" in developing strong AI, and suggests that success in this might represent the biggest event in human history. He has organised a number of prominent workshops and meetings around this topic, and this January wrote an open letter calling for a realignment of the field of AI towards research on safe and beneficial development of AI, now signed by a who's who of field leaders worldwide (http://futureoflife.org/misc/open_letter).

This event is free but booking is required.

Further information: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26219
CSER website: http://cser.org/event/future-of-ai/


A few nice pieces by or about Professor Russell:
"The long-term future of AI" (from his own website): https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/research/future/
"Of myths and moonshine" - his response to the Edge.org question on the myth of AI: http://edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-the-myth-of-ai#26015
"Concerns of an artificial intelligence pioneer" Interview in Quanta https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150421-concerns-of-an-artificial-intelligence-pioneer/

Cost: Free