As AI develops, questions about ethics are becoming critical. Seth and Molly talk to two researchers about humans’ role in designing the silicon brain at the 2020 AAAS meeting in Seattle.

Click above to listen to part 1 of AI: Where Does it End?, featuring Oren Etzioni, CEO of The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Mark Hill, Professor of computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and chair of the Computing Community Consortium.

AI: Where Does it End?:
Part 1: AI Hippocratic Oath
Part 2: Helpful AI vs Ethical AI
Part 3: Expanding and Restricting AI

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