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Show Notes
Is the malicious use of artificial intelligence inevitable? If the history of technological progress has taught us anything, it's that every "beneficial" technological breakthrough can be used to cause harm. How can we keep bad actors from using otherwise beneficial AI technology to hurt others? How can we ensure that AI technology is designed thoughtfully to prevent accidental harm or misuse?
On this month's podcast, Ariel spoke with FLI co-founder Victoria Krakovna and Shahar Avin from the Center for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER). They talk about CSER's recent report on forecasting, preventing, and mitigating the malicious uses of AI, along with the many efforts to ensure safe and beneficial AI.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
- the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal,
- Goodhart's Law with AI systems,
- spear phishing with machine learning algorithms,
- why it's so easy to fool ML systems,
- and why developing AI is still worth it in the end.
In this interview we discuss The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention and Mitigation, the original FLI grants, and the RFP examples for the 2018 round of FLI grants. This podcast was edited by Tucker Davey.
