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Mondo Gonzales and Doug Thornton: Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

Prophecy Watchers

Gary Stearman and Mondo Gonzales

Religion & Spirituality

4.6968 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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0:00.0

We're going to talk about AI today.

0:02.4

And more especially, Mondo, we're going to talk about Google's sentient AI and why that's

0:08.9

probably a really bad thing.

0:11.2

At least that's my point of view.

0:12.6

You may have a different one, but I want to start off with a quote.

0:16.9

And of course, if I'm going to start off with a quote about AI, it's going to be from Stephen Hawking.

0:21.6

So Stephen Hawking says, we are at the most dangerous moment in the development of history.

0:28.6

The rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend job destruction deep into the middle of classes,

0:36.6

with only the most caring, creative,

0:39.6

or supervisory roles remaining. And he has some other quotes in there about how, you know,

0:46.0

more or less, artificial intelligence is probably the scariest thing that we could create

0:49.7

or could be the most beneficial thing we ever created. But it depends on how it felt that day.

0:55.5

So that's my problem with artificial intelligence.

0:59.5

Like we were saying prior before we started recording,

1:03.7

with the Tesla car, I want myself behind the wheel.

1:07.2

I still don't trust an AI driving.

1:09.4

That's just my perception. It's my belief. I always want a human being behind the wheel. I still don't trust an AI driving. That's just my perception. It's my belief. I always want a

1:13.8

human being behind the wheel, but I will also tell you 10 years of law enforcement, not everyone

1:19.3

should drive. Not everyone should be a lot of driver's license because we like to do this.

1:26.1

We like to do this as we drive. We text and we drive. Oh, we got it. You know, everything's fine. And then you get pulled over. You get a ticket for it. But yet on the same, on the same blow, I would be in my cruiser, answering a text message or a phone call, rogering up on the radio, and checking something on the

1:44.2

email with one eye on the entire road going 100 miles an hour to some sort of a call for service.

1:50.9

So, you know, we all have faults, and I get that.

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