FastForward Radio — Achieving Friendly Artificial Intelligence

The World Transformed, Part 5

Are
the robots going to take over?

The Matrix
and Terminator movies present a nightmare world in which
artificially intelligent machines pit themselves against humanity with
devastating consequences. Could something like that really
happen?  Do we face a future in which machines that are smarter
and potentially much more powerful than human beings view us in a
hostile manner? Or will these machine be indifferent to us?

Or will
they be our friends?

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Phil Bowermaster and Stephen Gordon welcome a panel of leading thinkers
on artificial intelligence to explore these issues:

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Archived recording available here:

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About our guests:

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id="ctl00_ContentMain_UpcomingShow_lblShowDescription">Eliezer Yudkowsky is the world’s foremost researcher on Friendly AI and recursive self-improvement. He is a research fellow with the href="http://www.singinst.org/">Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.
id="ctl00_ContentMain_UpcomingShow_lblShowDescription">James Hughes is the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and he is the producer and host of the weekly syndicated public affairs talk show href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChangesurferRadio">Changesurfer Radio
id="ctl00_ContentMain_UpcomingShow_lblShowDescription">Ben Goertzel is the chief science officer and acting CEO of href="http://www.novamente.net/">Novamente. He is the Director of Research for the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence.