Bob Marks on Why AI Won’t Destroy the World, or Save It

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 17 May 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Today’s ID the Future from the vault dives into the controversial realm of artificial intelligence (AI). Will robots or other computers ever become so fast and powerful that they become conscious, creative, and free? Will AI reach a point where it leaves humans in the dust? To shed light on these and other questions, host Casey Luskin interviews computer engineering professor Robert J. Marks, head of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Source

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0:00.0	ID the future
0:05.0	future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Is artificial intelligence going to take over the world?
0:15.0	Hello and welcome to ID the Future.
0:18.0	I'm Casey Luskin and today I'm speaking with Professor Robert Marks,
0:22.0	a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at Baylor University with a PhD in electrical engineering from Texas Tech University.
0:29.0	He's the founder of the Evolutionary Informatics Lab with William Dembski and the author of many technical
0:34.9	papers that have explicated how information makes a case for intelligent design.
0:40.0	He's also the author of a great book on the topic of Evolutionary Informatics, appropriately
0:44.8	titled Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics.
0:48.1	And he's also a director and senior fellow of the Bradley Center on Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Discovery Institute.
0:54.8	So Dr Marks, thank you so much for coming on the show with us today.
0:57.8	And it's great always to talk to you, Casey.
1:01.0	Well, we're here today to discuss your contribution to a new book
1:05.5	that's coming out in October of 2021 titled The Comprehensive Guide to Science and
1:10.1	Faith exploring the ultimate questions about life in the Cosmos.
1:14.0	Along with William Dembski and Joseph Holden, I'm a co-editor of the book.
1:17.6	I hope you'll check it out. It's available on Amazon.com.
1:20.7	Dr Marks contributed a chapter in the book titled Will intelligent machines Rise Up and
1:26.1	overtake humanity and I want to say Bob that as I was editing basically all 48 or 50 chapters whatever whatever it was in this book.
1:34.0	Yours was one of the most enjoyable to edit.
1:36.5	I just really found it very enlightening and interesting and a lot of fun to read.
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