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Hello and welcome to the Excerpt, I'm Dana Taylor. Today is Sunday, January 28, 2024. The unleashing of powerful artificial intelligence into the world, with little to any regulation or guardrails has put many people on edge.

Its nascent use and integration in everything from health care to law enforcement to war has

already shown us the tremendous dangers it poses.

How worried should we be?

I'm joined now by someone who can help us understand the risks AI can pose,

and hopefully how we can mitigate those risks.

Vincent Conitzer is a computer science professor

at Carnegie Mellon University,

professor of CS and philosophy,

and head of technical AI engagement at the Institute for Ethics in

AI at the University of Oxford.

He's also the co-author of a book coming out February 8th, Moral AI, and how we get there.

Vincent, thanks for joining me.

Thank you for having me.

So I want to start with Oxford's unique approach

to ethics in AI and why that's important. What does philosophy have to teach us

about how to approach AI regulation?

So as you said, we see that AI is touching so many different areas of life right now.

I am trained primarily as a computer scientist,

but that training isn't really designed exactly

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