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We Have Concerns

Circuitry Good Explanation

We Have Concerns

Anthony Carboni/Jeff Cannata

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4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

With each passing breakthrough in artificial intelligence, we’re asking our machines to make increasingly complex and weighty decisions. Trouble is, AIs are starting to act beyond our levels of comprehension. In an effort to bridge the growing gap between man and machine, the Pentagon is launching a new program to create machines that can explain their actions in a way we puny humans can understand. Jeff and Anthony discuss whether this is a good idea.

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for every exhibit. This is we have concerns. Hi Jeff Canada.

0:40.0

Hi Anthony Carboni. Hello concerned citizens.

0:42.5

You know Anthony many moons ago in one of our early episodes we discussed the uh

0:49.2

the self-driving car never heard of it thought experiment where if you know if a car is

0:55.6

barreling down the road, two self-driving cars barreling down the road and one's leaving from

1:00.1

Chicago and going 400 miles an hour. Yeah we worked it's a very fast car.

1:04.6

And there's going to be an accident unavoidable accident but the car can either collide with the

1:09.4

family of people in one or kill just one. It's the train conductor experiment but with two robots.

1:15.9

Right. How do you do the least amount of bad in a situation where you can do no good?

1:20.2

We talked a lot about that in that episode and it's a idea that's persisted because

1:25.7

we're getting to the age of self-driving cars. Yeah. And really the age of AI in general we

1:32.6

talk about AI a lot on the show but it makes people a little uneasy to think of how much AI is

1:40.1

in control of the world and how much more how many systems AI will be controlling.

1:45.2

Really? It just makes me feel so much more calm. Me too. I think I mean I get it. I get it.

1:51.0

I get why people would be weird about it but let me not have the responsibility to worry. But at the

1:54.2

same time right up until the robots want to kill us. Yeah. Life's pretty good for us. And you know

1:59.5

what when they do want to kill us it's probably a good decision. It was probably based on a real

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