299 - Dr. Paula Boddington - A.I. Ethics
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Paula Boddington is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Healthcare at the University of West London where she works with a research group concerned with the quality of care for hospital patients who are also living with dementia. She has held academic posts at the Australian National University, Bristol University, Cardiff University, and Oxford University, and has degrees in philosophy, psychology, and law from Keele, Oxford, and Cardiff Universities. She has a long-standing interest in ethical and social questions in new technologies, including artificial intelligence.
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/jj69RnoE9qI
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Previous discussions with Paula Boddington:
- How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Humanity - With Dr. Paula Boddington: https://youtu.be/jti77KQKYuc
- Digital ID and Control | with Dr. Paula Boddington: https://youtu.be/a9VeKqd6szA
- Biotech Creation Myths - with Dr. Paula Boddington: https://youtu.be/a9VeKqd6szA
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Her recent book on this topic, AI Ethics: A Textbook (Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Theory, and Algorithms) by Paula Boddington:
- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Artificial-Intelligence-Foundations-Algorithms-ebook/dp/B0BSGKRYTW
- Springer: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-9382-4
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Preview clip
00:00:46 - Intro music
00:01:11 - Introduction
00:01:52 - Various aspects of AI
00:04:12 - ChatGPT
00:09:36 - Power and intention
00:11:02 - What it means to do something
00:12:52 - Imposing limitations
00:13:44 - Paula's book
00:17:35 - Intelligence is only one part of us
00:19:35 - Public trust in AI
00:26:37 - Embodied living
00:29:32 - Medically assisted dying
00:31:39 - Machine doctors
00:32:21 - "This is going to save time"
00:33:58 - A return to embodied experience
00:43:35 - Keeping the passions under control
00:49:57 - Fetishize
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| 0:00.0 | I think CHAPGPT stops at collecting data at 2021, I think, |
| 0:04.4 | but if it carries on updating the data, |
| 0:06.6 | it's going to be collecting its own data. |
| 0:08.3 | It's going to be like... |
| 0:09.2 | It's going to be a feedback. |
| 0:10.4 | That's the really... |
| 0:12.2 | That's really the biggest thing that I'm seeing |
| 0:14.2 | is that if you project AI very long term, |
| 0:16.8 | it's going to be diminishing... |
| 0:19.4 | It'll be diminishing returns and a kind of, you know, |
| 0:23.1 | when people talk about like singularity and like AI, you know, exploding and becoming, I don't see, |
| 0:28.9 | I don't see how that's possible because it has no relevance. It has no desires. And so all it can |
| 0:33.5 | ultimately be is a kind of spinning back onto itself with maybe with a long arc, |
| 0:38.7 | but on that long arc, you're looking at a kind of leveling, you know, a kind of intelligence |
| 0:43.6 | leveling. I don't see, I can't see otherwise. This is Jonathan Pajot. Welcome to the symbolic world. So hello, everyone. I'm here with Paula Bortington. Those of you who've watched my channel |
| 1:17.4 | have seen us talk on several subjects. She is an ethicist. She's also teachers in different |
| 1:23.0 | institutions. And she's been thinking a lot about, you know, the relationship between |
| 1:28.9 | biology and ethics, but also technology and ethics. And so it seems like, you know, this is the |
| 1:33.5 | perfect time to talk about it with the arising of AI and also the kind of madness around self-identification. |
| 1:39.8 | All of this is kind of happening all at the same time. And so, Paula, thanks for talking to me again. |
| 1:45.8 | Oh, really great to talk to you. The main problem is trying to focus on something where it doesn't |
| 1:50.5 | just go on over the place because everything is so interconnected. Yeah. Well, I'd like to know a little |
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