Why AI is a threat--and how to use it for good | John Tasioulas | TEDxAthens

AI is a radically transformative technology that makes it even more urgent for us to address Socrates’ question anew - 'how should we live?'. But at the same time the advent of AI creates new threats to our ability to answer that very question. This talk addresses three of those threats and how to respond to them. John Tasioulas is Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy and the inaugural Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Balliol College Oxford. He studied law and philosophy at the University of Melbourne and completed his doctorate as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. He was previously Yeoh Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Law at King’s College London, Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and Lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow.

Professor Tasioulas is a Senior Fellow in Schmidt Sciences’s AI2050 program and a member of the Prime Minister of Greece’s High-Level Advisory Committee on AI. He has acted as a consultant on human rights to the World Bank and served as a member of the International Advisory Board, Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA), European Parliament. Professor Tasioulas has held visiting appointments at All Souls College, Oxford, the Australian National University, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Notre Dame. He has published widely in the areas of moral philosophy, legal philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of technology. He is currently engaged in an AI2050 project on humanistic AI ethics together with Professor Hélène Landemore (Yale University). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx