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New Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyThe AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine ThinkingFor many, technology offers hope for the future―that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines. Yet rather than open new futures, today's powerful AI technologies reproduce the past. Forged from oceans of our data into immensely powerful but flawed mirrors, they reflect the same errors, biases, and failures of wisdom that we strive to escape. Our new digital mirrors point back...2025-03-291h 00
New Books in Big IdeasThe AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine ThinkingFor many, technology offers hope for the future―that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines. Yet rather than open new futures, today's powerful AI technologies reproduce the past. Forged from oceans of our data into immensely powerful but flawed mirrors, they reflect the same errors, biases, and failures of wisdom that we strive to escape. Our new digital mirrors point back...2025-03-271h 00
In Conversation: An OUP PodcastThe AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine ThinkingFor many, technology offers hope for the future―that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines. Yet rather than open new futures, today's powerful AI technologies reproduce the past. Forged from oceans of our data into immensely powerful but flawed mirrors, they reflect the same errors, biases, and failures of wisdom that we strive to escape. Our new digital mirrors point back...2025-03-271h 00
New Books in TechnologyThe AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine ThinkingFor many, technology offers hope for the future―that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines. Yet rather than open new futures, today's powerful AI technologies reproduce the past. Forged from oceans of our data into immensely powerful but flawed mirrors, they reflect the same errors, biases, and failures of wisdom that we strive to escape. Our new digital mirrors point back...2025-03-271h 00
New Books NetworkThe AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine ThinkingFor many, technology offers hope for the future―that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines. Yet rather than open new futures, today's powerful AI technologies reproduce the past. Forged from oceans of our data into immensely powerful but flawed mirrors, they reflect the same errors, biases, and failures of wisdom that we strive to escape. Our new digital mirrors point back...2025-03-271h 00
The Academic LifeThe AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine ThinkingFor many, technology offers hope for the future―that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome―not by us, but by our machines. Yet rather than open new futures, today's powerful AI technologies reproduce the past. Forged from oceans of our data into immensely powerful but flawed mirrors, they reflect the same errors, biases, and failures of wisdom that we strive to escape. Our new digital mirrors point back...2025-03-271h 00
Curiosophy: A Future Forward Cast.Analysis of The AI Mirror Human Virtues in the Age of Artificial IntelligenceStep into the world of Shannon Vallor's thought-provoking work "The AI Mirror" as we explore the profound and often troubling ways artificial intelligence reflects our own humanity back to us. This episode delves into how AI systems don't just serve us—they reveal us, magnifying our collective intelligence, unconscious biases, and deepest values.We'll examine Vallor's compelling argument that machine learning algorithms function as mirrors, capturing and amplifying patterns in our data that often reinforce societal inequalities and prejudices. Rather than neutral tools, these systems expose uncomfortable truths about the society that created them.The co...2025-03-2113 min
Clear+Vivid with Alan AldaShannon Vallor: The AI IllusionArtificial intelligence is poised to reshape our world, in many ways for the better. But the gains come with great risks – above all that its seductive appeal lulls us into believing that AI machines know better than we do.
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The Deeper Thinking Podcast🎙️ The Mind Unbound: AI, Psychedelics, and the Future of Intelligence - The Deeper Thinking Podcast🎙️ The Mind Unbound: AI, Psychedelics, and the Future of Intelligence
For centuries, intelligence has been humanity’s defining trait—our ability to calculate, reason, and predict has shaped civilizations, driven progress, and secured our place at the top of the cognitive hierarchy. But what if we’ve misunderstood intelligence all along? What if it’s not about logic, but about perception? Not about control, but about surrender?
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping our world, not just by optimizing tasks, but by challenging the very definition of thought. Meanwhile, psychedelics—once dismissed as mere hallucinogens—are revealing profound insights into cog...2025-03-0228 min
On WisdomThe AI Mirror: Why Machines Reflect Us More Than They Think (with Shannon Vallor)Can AI ever be truly wise, or are we just seeing reflections of ourselves? Philosophy Professor Shannon Vallor joins Igor and Charles to explore how technology shapes human wisdom, why we’ve been thinking about AI all wrong, and what it really means to align machines with our values. Shannon unpacks the AI Mirror metaphor, suggesting that today’s AI isn’t a thinking mind but a reflection of human data, Igor considers whether technology could ever help us become wiser rather than just more efficient, and Charles wonders if philosophy can guide better decisions in a world increasingly shaped...2025-02-2344 min
The Deep View: Conversations#8: The ethics of artificial intelligence - Irina RaicuWe sat down with Irina Raicu, the director of the Internet Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. And today, we’re breaking down the ethics of artificial intelligence, those moral, philosophical challenges that are already resulting from the deployment of generative AI technologies. Episode Links: AI is using social media data: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/23/tech/social-media-ai-data-opt-out/index.htmlMusical.ly’s FTC fine: https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-technology-business-data-privacy-parenting-eafed6bfd7d241549e097e38e8088873X trains AI on your tweets: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/x-is-using-your-tweets-to-train-its-ai-heres-how-to-disable-that/ChatGPT’s impact on the l...2025-02-111h 17
Meesterwerk Podcast#186 Aflevering 4: De kracht van algoritmenDe kracht van Algoritmen!In deze aflevering duiken we in de fascinerende wereld van kunstmatige intelligentie en haar impact op ons dagelijks leven. Van de digitale transformatie tijdens de coronacrisis tot de controverses rond de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen en de mediastorm rond de rechtszaak van Johnny Depp – hoe sturen algoritmen onze keuzes en beïnvloeden ze ons gedrag? • “AI biedt geen neutrale spiegel; het versterkt onze vooroordelen en blinde vlekken.” – Shannon VallorMet spraakmakende voorbeelden zoals het Cambridge Analytica-schandaal en de psychologische manipulatie via sociale media, onderzoeken we de ethische uitdagingen van AI. Wat kunnen we l...2025-01-1945 min
Annual Lectures, Symposiums, and EventsIs ‘Ethical AI’ a Fantasy? - The 2024 Annual SymposiumRecent developments in Artificial Intelligence have generated a lot of public anxiety, especially regarding ethical issues: data bias, privacy, the opacity of automated decisions, the effects of algorithmic bubbles on democratic debate, not to mention the harms caused by deep fakes – the list goes on. In response, the emerging field of AI ethics aspires to address these issues.The expert panel of this year's Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Symposium, chaired by award-winning journalist Ritula Shah (formerly at the BBC), discuss these issues and more, thinking of ways we might address them.The Panel:Ma...2024-12-182h 00
The ShiftCuidado para não tropeçar nos dois degraus da disrupçãoQuando se trata de inovação, a fila anda muito rápido, e nenhuma empresa pode dizer que sua posição de liderança está garantida. Se não prestar atenção aos sinais de mudança dos consumidores, todo negócio está arriscado a tropeçar nos dois degraus da disrupção. O problema vem de longe, desde a antiga bomba de inseticida Flit, até a Kodak e Blockbuster. Quem explica tudo é Charles Schweitzer, especialista em transformação digital, conselheiro de empresas e atualmente CEO da startup Tanto. Links do episódioA página do Linkedin de Cha...2024-12-0548 min
使命門徒EP183 「 AI 有上帝的形象？」再思 AI 時代的人類價值《訪談英國徐西面博士》🎙️嘉賓：徐西面博士（英國愛丁堡大學）Ｑ：為何 AI 令人焦慮？它反映了什麼？Ａ：人工智能( AI )不只是工具，徐博士帶領我們探討其本質，並歸納了以下兩點： 1. 人工智能反映了人類的需求與慾望人工智能的本質是一面鏡子，反映了人類的多重需求。從開發商利益、設計者理念和使用者需求，AI 匯集了人類的慾望與期待。我們需要意識到 AI 不僅是工具，更是人類價值觀、需求和慾望的投射。2. 令人焦慮的原因：AI 的不透明性AI 的運作過程對大多數人來說是個「黑箱」，我們無法掌握它是如何作出決策，這樣的不透明性可能讓人感到不安，加上 AI 強大的運算能力可能讓我們擔心自己某些功能會被取代，進一步加劇了焦慮。 AI 既反映了我們的需求與慾望，其不透明性與高效能，更引發了人類被取代的擔憂，是我們今日需要正視並應對的挑戰。Ｑ：在 AI 時代，如何理解上帝的形象？Ａ：在 AI 時代，若人的價值僅限於效率和功能，我們將如同資本主義所驅動的科技發展般，逐漸被取代。然而，人是按著上帝的形象被造，是整全的存在，包括身體和靈魂，這是 AI 無法複製的。我們需要擁抱自身的獨特並承認有限，才能在與他人真實的互動和團契中，如徐教授提到的「聖徒肉身相通」，活出上帝的形象。 👍董牧師提問💬 在 AI 時代，許多人擔心人類會被機器取代。聽完本集關於『上帝的形象』的分享後，您對『人』的價值和意義有什麼新的思考？這對您的生活和教會參與有什麼啟發呢？ 歡迎你透過以下連結來和我們分享你的想法或提問喔！ 🔗 https://forms.gle/R6p4MQBHtxok5TSw9📚延伸資源 1. Ximian Xu, Digitalized Image of God. Routledge, 2024.🔗 https://www.amazon.com/-/zh_TW/Ximian-Xu/dp/10323978372. Shannon Vallor, The AI Mirror: Reframing Humanity in the Age of Intelligent Machines. Oxford University Press, 2024.🔗 https://www.amazon.com/AI-Mirror-Reclaim-Humanity-Thinking/dp/01977590Support the show2024-11-0756 min
Arts & IdeasInsiders & OutsidersThe philosopher Leo Strauss claimed that many of the great texts of Western philosophy can be read in two ways. There's the message intended for everybody, but also a deeper level, accessible only to those who can see it. Taking this as a starting point, Matthew Sweet grapples with the closed world of social media tribes, the challenges posed by conspiracy theory, and the history of thinking in allegorical symbols.
With:
Marianna Spring, the BBC's Disinformation Correspondent
Lisa Bortolotti, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham
Daniel Herskowitz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Theology & Religion, University...2024-10-1856 min
Ethical MachinesThe AI MirrorWe use the wrong metaphor for thinking about AI, Shannon Vallor argues, and bad thinking leads to bad results. We need to stop thinking about AI as being an agent or having a mind, and stop thinking of the human mind/brain as a kind of software/hardware configuration. All of this is misguided. Instead, we should think of AI as a mirror, reflecting our images in a sometimes helpful, sometimes distorted way. Our shifting to this new metaphor, she says, will lead us to better, and ethically better, AI.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands2024-10-101h 03
Past Present FutureMichael Lewis on Sam Bankman-Fried and Effective AltruismDavid talks to author Michael Lewis about SBF and EA: about the man he got to know before, during and after his spectacular fall and about the philosophy with which he was associated. What did Sam Bankman-Fried believe was the purpose of making so much money? How did he manage to get so side-tracked from doing good? Why when it all went wrong did he fail to save himself? A conversation about utilitarianism, risk and human weakness.Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon by Michael Lewis is out now in paperback with a new...2024-10-101h 00
Radboud Reflects, verdiepende lezingenPhilosopher Shannon Vallor - Reclaiming Our Humanity in Times of AI | Lecture and conversation[NL volgt ENG]Artificial Intelligence is in many ways a reflection of ourselves, for better or for worse. When we feed AI-algorithms with imperfect or biased data, they inevitably feed our faults back to us. But can AI also be used to boost humanity’s greatest strengths? Come listen to philosopher Shannon Vallor and see AI in a new light.
Reclaiming Our Humanity in Times of AI | Lecture and conversation with philosopher Shannon Vallor
Monday 30 September 2024 | 20.00 – 21.30 hrs | LUX, Nijmegen
Radboud Reflects, Radboud Centre Social Sciences, SIAC, School of Artificial Intelligence and Workgroup The Human Factor in New Technologies
Read the (Dutc...2024-10-081h 15
Past Present FutureAmerican Elections: 2024: Is Anyone Winning?David checks in with Gary Gerstle one more time before November to explore where things now stand with the US presidential election. In a conversation recorded in the immediate aftermath of the Walz/Vance debate, they discuss dead cats, October headwinds, comparisons with 2016 and a president missing in action. Plus, if the result really is too close to call, can the American Republic survive the fallout?There is another bonus episode out now to accompany our recent series on Thinking Machines: David and Shannon Vallor talk about where AI is really taking us, sorting the reality from th...2024-10-0659 min
Past Present FutureThinking About Thinking Machines: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Today’s episode in our series on the history of thinking about thinking machines explores the novel that inspired Blade Runner: Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968). David talks to Shannon Vallor about what the book has that the film lacks and how it comprehensively messes with the line between human and machine, the natural and the artificial. What is the meaning of the electric sheep?To hear a bonus episode on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to accompany this series sign up now to PPF+ and get ad-free listening and all our other bonuses too: £5...2024-09-2959 min
Past Present FutureThinking About Thinking Machines: MetropolisFor the first episode in our new series on the history of thinking about thinking machines, David talks to philosopher Shannon Vallor about Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The last great silent film is the most futuristic: a vision of robots and artificial life, it is also about where the human heart fits into an increasingly mechanised world. Is it prophetic? Is it monstrous? And who are the winners and losers when war is declared on the machines?To hear a bonus episode on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to accompany this series sign up now to PPF+ and get ad-free...2024-09-2256 min
Past Present FutureWhat if… Scotland Had Voted for Independence?For our last episode in this series of historical counterfactuals, David talks to the historian Ben Jackson about what might have happened if the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum had gone the other way. How close was the vote and what could have swung it differently? Were the dark warnings about the consequences of independence likely to have been borne out? And what would an independent Scotland mean for the world today?To hear the second part of David’s conversation with Chris Clark about the fateful origins of the First World War sign up now to PPF+ and get a...2024-09-191h 01
Artificiality: Minds Meeting MachinesShannon Vallor: The AI MirrorWe're excited to welcome to the podcast Shannon Vallor, professor of ethics and technology at the University of Edinburgh, and the author of The AI Mirror.
In her book, Shannon invites us to rethink AI—not as a futuristic force propelling us forward, but as a reflection of our past, capturing both our human triumphs and flaws in ways that shape our present reality.
In The AI Mirror, Shannon uses the powerful metaphor of a mirror to illustrate the nature of AI. She argues that AI doesn’t represent a new intelligence; rather, it reflects human...2024-09-1356 min
AI: Het Pedagogisch Appèl#4 Aflevering 4: De kracht van algoritmenDe kracht van Algoritmen!In deze aflevering duiken we in de fascinerende wereld van kunstmatige intelligentie en haar impact op ons dagelijks leven. Van de digitale transformatie tijdens de coronacrisis tot de controverses rond de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen en de mediastorm rond de rechtszaak van Johnny Depp – hoe sturen algoritmen onze keuzes en beïnvloeden ze ons gedrag? • “AI biedt geen neutrale spiegel; het versterkt onze vooroordelen en blinde vlekken.” – Shannon VallorMet spraakmakende voorbeelden zoals het Cambridge Analytica-schandaal en de psychologische manipulatie via sociale media, onderzoeken we de ethische uitdagingen van AI. Wat kunnen we l...2024-09-1045 min
This Is Not A Drill with Gavin EslerThe A.I. TrapArtificial Intelligence is continuing to develop whether we like it or not. But how will it affect our lives, and what should we make of the endless doom-laden scenarios suggesting humans are about to be rendered obsolete by machines? How scared should we all be about A.I., and does it offer more opportunities, or potential dangers? Gavin Esler discusses the benefits and risks of A.I. with Robert Trager, co-director of the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, and Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the E...2024-09-0448 min
Zurück zur Zukunft - Tech-News und Business Models#281 |📈 NVIDIA’s Quartalszahlen, Neues von OpenAI, KI-generierte Spiele, 🤑 Milliardäre vs. Gesetze(00:01:41) Nvidia übertrifft Erwartungen und sieht dennoch Kursrückgang: Ein Blick auf die Quartalszahlen
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/28/nvidia-nvda-q2-earnings-report
(00:09:50) OpenAI Finanzierungsrunde - steigen NVIDIA und Apple ein?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/29/24231626/apple-nvidia-openai-invest-microsoft
(00:17:58) OpenAI neues Model + Orion
https://the-decoder.com/openais-strawberry-ai-is-reportedly-the-secret-sauce-behind-next-gen-orion-language-model/
(00:24:04) OpenAI und Anthropic geben US-Regierung Zugang zu neuen KI-Modellen vor Veröffentlichung und Kalifornien beschließt Regulierung großer Sprachmodelle
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/29/24231395/openai-anthropic-share-models-us-ai-safety-institute
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/29/california-ai-regulation-bill
(00:31:42) Qwen2 VL model kann Videos von bis zu 20min analysieren und schlägt alle Aktuellen LLMs
https://ai-rockstars.de/alibaba-stellt-qwen2-vl-vor/
(00:34:29) Neural net powered Game D...2024-09-0359 min
UntangledI turned 40 this week.Hi, it’s Charley, and this is Untangled, a newsletter about technology, people, and power.Can’t afford a subscription and value Untangled’s offerings? Let me know! You only need to reply to this email, and I’ll add you to the paid subscription list, no questions asked.I turned 40 this week and I spent the weekend in nature, surrounded by my favorite people. While my cup is running over with friendship, love, and support, I’ll always take more 🤣. You can celebrate me and my next trip around the sun by becoming a paid subscribe...2024-08-1847 min
The Human Risk PodcastProfessor Shannon Vallor on the AI MirrorWhat if we saw Artificial Intelligence as a mirror rather than as a form of intelligence?That’s the subject of a fabulous new book by Professor Shannon Vallor, who is my guest on this episode.In our discussion, we explore how artificial intelligence reflects not only our technological prowess but also our ethical choices, biases, and the collective values that shape our world.We also discuss how AI systems mirror our societal flaws, raising critical questions about accountability, transparency, and the role of ethics in AI development. 2024-08-161h 10
UntangledAI is a mirror. What can it show us?Hi, it’s Charley, and this is Untangled, a newsletter about technology, people, and power.This week I’m sharing my conversation with Shannon Vallor, the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) at the University of Edinburgh. Vallor and I talk about her great new book, The AI Mirror: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking, and how to chart a new path from the one we’re on. We discuss:* The metaphor of an ‘AI mirror’ — what it is, and how it he...2024-08-1447 min
Philosopher's ZoneWhat is AI doing to our humanity?Whatever else artificial intelligence is, according to Professor Shannon Vallor, it is first and foremost a projection of the human. And so whatever threat it poses, is a threat from within our humanity.2024-08-0228 min
The TLS PodcastThe Mind BindThis week, Philip Ball assesses the anxiety about AI - and provides some reassurance; and Jane Robinson on Emily Davies, the woman who founded Girton College, Cambridge.'Moral AI: And how we get there', by Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer'The AI Mirror: How to reclaim our humanity in an age of machine thinking', by Shannon Vallor'Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to our humanity in an age of social robots', by Eve Herold'The Atomic Human: Understanding ourselves in the Age of...2024-08-0144 min
Templeton Ideas PodcastShannon Vallor (Artificial Intelligence)Dr. Shannon Vallor is a professor at the University of Edinburgh, where she serves as chair of the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her research explores how new technologies, especially AI, robotics, and data science, reshape human character, habits, and practices. She also advises policymakers and industry on the ethical design and use of AI. Her latest book, The AI Mirror: Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking, argues that AI can be a tool to enhance our humanity, not replace it. Shannon joins the podcast to discuss artificial...2024-07-1831 minNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyShannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and destroy us or become our overlords. In The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford UP), Shannon Vallor argues that the actual, and very alarming, existential risk of AI that we face right now is quite different. Because some AI technologies, such as ChatGPT or other large language models, can closely mimic the outputs of an understanding mind without having actual understanding, the technology can...2024-07-101h 06
NBN Book of the DayShannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and destroy us or become our overlords. In The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford UP), Shannon Vallor argues that the actual, and very alarming, existential risk of AI that we face right now is quite different. Because some AI technologies, such as ChatGPT or other large language models, can closely mimic the outputs of an understanding mind without having actual understanding, the technology can...2024-07-101h 06New Books in TechnologyShannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and destroy us or become our overlords. In The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford UP), Shannon Vallor argues that the actual, and very alarming, existential risk of AI that we face right now is quite different. Because some AI technologies, such as ChatGPT or other large language models, can closely mimic the outputs of an understanding mind without having actual understanding, the technology can...2024-07-101h 06In Conversation: An OUP PodcastShannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and destroy us or become our overlords. In The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford UP), Shannon Vallor argues that the actual, and very alarming, existential risk of AI that we face right now is quite different. Because some AI technologies, such as ChatGPT or other large language models, can closely mimic the outputs of an understanding mind without having actual understanding, the technology can...2024-07-101h 06
New Books in PhilosophyShannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and destroy us or become our overlords. In The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford UP), Shannon Vallor argues that the actual, and very alarming, existential risk of AI that we face right now is quite different. Because some AI technologies, such as ChatGPT or other large language models, can closely mimic the outputs of an understanding mind without having actual understanding, the technology can...2024-07-101h 06New Books in Big IdeasShannon Vallor, "The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking" (Oxford UP, 2024)There's a lot of talk these days about the existential risk that artificial intelligence poses to humanity -- that somehow the AIs will rise up and destroy us or become our overlords. In The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford UP), Shannon Vallor argues that the actual, and very alarming, existential risk of AI that we face right now is quite different. Because some AI technologies, such as ChatGPT or other large language models, can closely mimic the outputs of an understanding mind without having actual understanding, the technology can...2024-07-101h 06
The Sunday ShowConsidering the Ethics of AI AssistantsIn April, Google DeepMind published a paper that boasts 57 authors, including experts from a range of disciplines in different parts of Google, including DeepMind, Jigsaw, and Google Research, as well as researchers from academic institutions such as Oxford, University College London, Delft University of Technology, University of Edinburgh, and a think tank at Georgetown, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology. The paper speculates about the ethical and societal risks posed by the types of AI assistants Google and other tech firms want to build, which the authors say are “likely to have a profound impact on our individual an...2024-07-0753 min
Keen On AmericaEpisode 2109: Madhumita Murgia on why we are living in the dark shadow of AIWhatever one thinks of the creative potential of AI, it’s definitely been great for metaphor makers. Yesterday, we had Shannon Vallor explaining why AI is a mirror of our social and political values. Today, Madhumita Murgia, the Financial Times’ Artificial Intelligence editor and author of CODE DEPENDENT, suggests that we are all living in the shadow of the economic perils and inequities AI. The metaphors of shadows and mirrors return us, of course, to Plato’s cave and Socrates’ invention of metaphor to define justice. Rather than rely on dusty old metaphors, perhaps AI offers an opportunity to get out...2024-06-2735 min
Keen On AmericaEpisode 2108: Shannon Vallor on how to Reclaim our Humanity in an Age of Machine ThinkingAccording to Shannon Vallor, a self-styled AI “ethicist”, artificial intelligence is a mirror. When we interact with the latest algorithms from OpenAI or Anthropic, she says, we are actually observing our social and political values, prejudices and ideals. This all-too-human quality of AI makes it less of an existential threat to humanity and more of a reflection both of society’s flaws and a promise of its self-improvement. AI, like our own reflection in the mirror, is both everything and nothing. No wonder we need “ethicists” like Vallor to remind us of our flawed appearance. 2024-06-2646 min
Keen On AmericaEpisode 2107: Matt Beane on How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent MachinesWe are focusing on the impact of AI this week with interviews featuring Shannon Vallor, Matt Beane and Madhumita Murgia. First up Beane, who teaches Technology Management at UC Santa Barbara and has a new book out about how to save human ability in an age of intelligent machines. The book is called The Skill Code, but as Matt Beane explains, it’s really about a human code that will allow us to maintain our value in an age of intelligent machines. Matt has also been kind enough to provide KEEN ON subscribers with a link to ch...2024-06-2537 min
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Non-Fiction, Computers & TechnologyThe AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon VallorPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking Author: Shannon Vallor Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 3, 2024 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: For many, technology offers hope for the future—that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome—not by us, but by our machines. Yet...2024-06-0330 min
Unlock Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsThe AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon VallorPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769026to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking
Author: Shannon Vallor
Narrator: Kim Niemi
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes
Release date: June 3, 2024
Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
Publisher's Summary:
For many, technology offers hope for the future—that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome—not by us, but by our mach...2024-06-039h 05
Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsThe AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking by Shannon VallorPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769026 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking Author: Shannon Vallor Narrator: Kim Niemi Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 5 minutes Release date: June 3, 2024 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: For many, technology offers hope for the future—that promise of shared human flourishing and liberation that always seems to elude our species. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies spark this hope in a particular way. They promise a future in which human limits and frailties are finally overcome—not by us, but by our...2024-06-0330 min
The Good RobotThe 'AI Mirror' with Shannon VallorIn this episode we chat to Shannon Vallor, the Bailey Gifford professor in the ethics and data of AI at the University of Edinburgh and the Director for the Centre for Technomoral Futures. We talk about feminist care ethics; technologies, vices and virtues; why Aristotle believed that the people who make technology should be excluded from citizenship; and why we still don't have the kinds of robots that we imagined that we'd have in the early 2000s. We also discuss Shannon's new book, The AI Mirror, which is now available for pre-order. 2024-02-2030 min
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