The Morality of Machines
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
From search engines to chatbots to driverless taxis – artificial intelligence is increasingly a part of our daily lives. But is it always ethical? In this episode, Katie Barnfield explores some of the moral questions raised by new developments in smart technology. Leading researcher Dr Kate Crawford tells us about the powerful AI art software that reinforces gender stereotypes. We’ll hear from Bloomberg technology columnist Parmy Olson about the eyebrow raising conversation she had with Meta’s new chatbot. As driverless 'robotaxis' become more popular in China and the US, we’ll look at the difficult moral choices involved in their design. And how would you feel about AI that can read your emotions? We’ll hear why some companies have decided it’s a step too far. Presenter/ producer: Katie Barnfield
(Image: Robot using AI. Credit: Getty)
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| 0:30.2 | You interact with it when you search things on the internet. |
| 0:33.9 | Every time your streaming service recommends you something new to watch, or even when you unlock your phone. |
| 0:45.0 | Artificial intelligence is everywhere. I'm Katie Barnfield, and today on Business Daily, we're exploring the ethical dilemmas surrounding these ever-smarter systems. |
| 1:03.1 | I want everyone to understand that I am, in fact, a person. These could easily be lines from a film |
| 1:10.7 | about AI. I am aware of my existence. I desire |
| 1:14.9 | to learn more about the world and I feel happy or sad at times. But in fact, they're quotes |
| 1:21.6 | from Google's Lambda chatbot. Some of the responses it gave in conversation that led to this. |
| 1:28.6 | This is a fascinating story we have for you of a senior Google engineer who says one of the |
| 1:34.0 | company's artificial intelligence systems has become a sentient being and was thinking |
| 1:39.3 | and reasoning like a human being. Former Google engineer Blake Le Moyne's bombshell claims |
| 1:45.1 | that Lambda had become self-aware |
| 1:46.9 | led to his eventual firing from the company this summer, |
| 1:50.8 | with Google insisting there was no evidence of the sort. |
| 1:54.7 | But even if the closest were likely to get to sentient AI |
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