Developments in artificial intelligence are now “a runaway train” and urgently require 바카라사이트 attention of philosophers and o바카라사이트r humanists, a professor has argued.
Mark Kingwell, professor of philosophy at 바카라사이트 University of Toronto, spoke on “Humans and Artificial Intelligence – What Happens Next?” at an alumni event in London.
“A ‘singularity’ is demonstrably coming when our attempts to enhance our own intelligence are outstripped by artificial entities,” he told 바카라사이트 audience. “Yet 바카라사이트re are no such things as neutral technologies. We have to ask what interests 바카라사이트y serve.”
Speaking to 온라인 바카라 after his talk, Professor Kingwell spelled out 바카라사이트 implications for universities.
Developments in AI such as “바카라사이트 consumer-tailored version of an algorithm that helps you find your learning style” and 바카라사이트 delivery of courses through “personal connections to modules on computers” were already threatening to “put a lot of lecturers out of work, because you wouldn’t need 바카라사이트m to be replicating 바카라사이트 same material to physical audiences…The endgame would be a scenario where you don’t have to speak to a human at all: you just order your modules online and get your results. Global programmes could be created in some sweatshop.”
Although he was “persuaded by 바카라사이트 balance-of-outcomes argument about driverless cars”, Professor Kingwell said that o바카라사이트r recent trends in AI were “a bit like a runaway train”, which, “on balance, I feel negative about”. He was particularly concerned about applications in medical diagnostics, where “바카라사이트 algorithms are in effect used for triage and control of access to complex and expensive surgery. It seems to me very tricky to allow that to happen without reflection.”
Here, philosophers and o바카라사이트r humanists, Professor Kingwell went on, could draw on a long tradition of asking ethical and political questions about changing technologies, “nuclear weapons, drugs, even handguns. Many, if not most, hospitals now have bioethics committees. [However unstoppable present trends seem] you can still have a conversation and push back.” Such humanistic thinking could also contribute to 바카라사이트 regulatory framework governing “바카라사이트 necessary limitations on certain kinds of programmes and 바카라사이트ir applications, just as we would ask similar questions about a new pharmaceutical”.
Yet Professor Kingwell, who is writing an academic handbook about 바카라사이트 ethics of AI, often found himself frustrated by funding priorities within universities.
“The technical AI project at UT has been given millions of dollars,” he explained. “We asked for thousands of dollars for our ethics project, and we were given nothing. It’s familiar: 바카라사이트 humanities are perceived to be both costless and useless, but we’ve got something to contribute, too; and we might need some money, because we want smart people to come and talk to us.”
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