You and AI presented by Professor Brian Cox | The Royal Society

Throughout 2018, we've brought you the world's leading thinkers on artificial intelligence.
Now we're calling on you to pose your questions to our panel of experts, to find out what challenges and opportunities you think AI will present us with in the next decade. Will AI affect our jobs? What risks might AI pose to society? Can we train AIs to make moral and ethical decisions?

The panel will be hosted by Professor Brian Cox OBE FRS, physicist, author and broadcaster. It includes:

Professor Peter Donnelly FRS FMedSci, Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, and Professor of Statistical Science, University of Oxford

Dr Vivienne Ming, theoretical neuroscientist, technologist, entrepreneur and co-founder of Socos

Professor Suchi Saria, John C. Malone Assistant Professor at John Hopkins University, Department of Computer Science

[heathercommonsense]

Watching this 3 years later in 2022, I feel we don't need the Earth to become less human. We need more humanity and our humans need propose.

[ololkenshinlolo]

Brian questions are on point, no one takes into account the movement of the people being displaced, they are completely disconnected from reality

[sandipghoshal]

Man I love this sort of docs before youtube discovery used to broadcast such shows. Amazing

[lawrencetate]

"...as Hawking puts it, “Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all.”

[xplusx]

This is great, but I couldn't help but notice how this discussion is all framed in the current paradigm where people are required to work. All of talk about how the human and AI will fit together in the economic / business / world of work, may make sense is the short term, in the medium to long term this makes less sense. What I believe we should be focusing on is how to live with AI and robotics in the longer term, because I believe we should be setting the foundations for that future - in the present.

The idea that people are required to work (or put another way: to suffer) in order to survive is a notion that we need to plan on abandoning. If we are to live with general AI and robotics in the future, we should be prepared to live in a world where human work is no longer necessary. The implications of this are profound.

If human work is no longer needed, then our societal class structure will be challenged. It could be a much more utopian future, or it could be a much more dystopian future. We must decide now which road we will go down.

[awjaaa]

Y'know, there is a very important job in the release of videos like this that is likely often a very thankless job. And, my little comment here will not change that. But, on the very small chance that whomever took the time to type in these closed captions (the CC) comes along 5 years later to watch the video they likely had to watch what essentially amounts to a thousand times to get it right... thank you. The sound was terrible, half of these people are too soft-spoken, and my hearing was stolen over time by large speakers at venues. I can only enjoy this information because of all of the effort you put into it. Thank you.

[peterjohnson]

In this engaging and informative debate, presented by four remarkable humans, we can experience how far humankind has moved on from painting on cave we still have the same brains as our ancestors. We have better tools today because they have evolved with and along side us. We can take a VR walk through such a cave and possibly add to the paintings! Dr Vivienne here made us think, doubt, consider, imagine, agree, etc. If I put my 'Star Trek' head on, then perhaps AI might match her and her wisdom in the far distant future. Personally of course I doubt it! However, humans may find a way of willfully evoling intellectually and physically by emerging with AI. By then will those 'humans' look back at this debate and feel it is as remote as visiting a prehistoric cave?

[NHUkraine]

Love Brian Cox! Smart, funny, personable, articulate and thoughtful.

[Ben_D.]

I liked all of this, and wish it was longer. Especially Vivienne. I could listen to her and Brian ... like for years.

[phatesdesign]

You are a global treasure. Brian, Thank you for helping me expand my mind and in turn I will share this knowledge with my little one.

[paul_smith]

58:51, although it was somewhat tongue-in-cheek "Who's sponsoring this again?", then shortly after, "Someone paid for my flight." This is the reason companies like Google shouldn't be allowed to monopolise personal data. Big corporations track records are awful in safeguarding and using data ethically. All they want to do is make money and nothing else. They don't give a stuff about the well-being of people or the planet.

[carlosladen]

Is it me or the sound is annoyingly low ?

[blazingsaddle]

AI with Cox is a missed opportunity for the video title.

[samanthanor]

Wow I like the way she thinks reverse engineering before it's engineered. Making it so simple nature could do it. Thank you.

[NewbFixer]

The problem i see with identify an animal ai is that its reference database is 2d images. The animal picture you trying to identify might be obscured with foreground or background visual artifacts. We learn what animals look like in 3d. And often when we look at something (could be in the shade with no colour) we imagine the 3d shape and that sometimes helps us be more accurate identifying what it is. God knows what im going towards but its interesting to think of the 3d aspect.

[randomlight]

Really interesting discussion. We are seemingly on the edge of a great change with AI. Newsflash! Hard labour/manual work has drastically, and has been ever changing replacing people with machines. Tenders for contracts for example are obviously going to go to companies with less cost incurred. Outsourcing is another term to describe cheaper labour. On a completely different subject. I would have preferred Professor Cox on the panel as it would be great to hear his own views. Lastly. Is there an AI available to turn down American woman's voices? Lol

[seblee]

I am always impressed watching good public speakers, it inspires me very very much. Thanks everybody 🙏🏻

[bmpropro]

Watching this in this winter of 2021 has another effect...

[allanmanchester]

I envision a 20 hr work week and a 40% unemployment which would translate into a 90% reduction to our environmental footprint. We need to pull back from our work ethic.

[atarukoh]

This panel is like the real characters from the show big bang theory .Except this panel is truly smarter and and well spoken