A.I. is a mirror of humanity | Shannon Vallor

Shannon Vallor analyses the troubling relationship between artificial intelligence and its human creators.

When we interact with ChatGPT and other large language models, are we talking to a new form of intelligence or a reflection of ourselves?

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AI might seem like the pinnacle of a new frontier, opening up vast possibilities to reshape the future. But AI is backwards-facing by design, being an amalgamation of the ocean of data humanity has already produced. AI carries with it our blind spots. Join philosopher of technology, Shannon Vallor, as she argues that AI holds a mirror up to humanity and proposes how to address its flaws.

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Shannon Vallor is the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, the Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures, and a former AI ethicist at Google. Her research explores how new technologies -- especially AI, robotics, and data science -- reshape human moral character, habits, and practices. Her work includes advising policymakers and industry on the ethical design and use of AI.

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00:00 Introduction
00:23 Talk begins
02:50 AI mirrors are getting exponentially more powerful
04:20 The postmodern Narcissus
07:04 AI mirrors reveal
08:53 AI mirrors magnify
11:14 AI brings the past forward

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