AI Ethics & Safety: What Could Go Wrong and How to Stop It
Summary
Podcast episode featuring Nell Watson discussing the distinctions between AI ethics and safety, agentic systems, and the importance of accountability and regulation in AI development.
Key quotes
AI ethics tends to be quite familiar to many people. it’s really about making sure that systems behave fairly and, and don’t act in ways that are deeply unfair
AI safety is more about the sort of Terminator type problems where you have a system that ends up doing things which is against the interest of humanity
The tech industry is not ready or able to self regulate because as soon as, you know, people realized there was a land rush and they needed to sort of move very quickly, they didn’t want any speed bumps.
A transcript of ‘The Brave Technologist’ podcast episode 10. Host Luke Malks interviews Nell Watson, President of EthicsNet, regarding the risks of emerging AI technologies and strategies for mitigation.