AS IF HUMAN - Ethics & Artificial Intelligence

A discussion between Professor Sir NIgel Shadbolt, Principal of Jesus College, and Professor Sir Charles Godfray, Director of the Oxford Martin School, about Sir Nigel's new book 'As If Human - Ethics and Artificial Intelligence' (Yale, 2024).

Recorded in the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub on 12th November 2024, as part of the Digital Hub events programme..

Despite increasingly sophisticated programming, artificial intelligences share none of our essential human characteristics – sentience, physical sensation, emotional responsiveness, versatile general intelligence.

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt proposes that if we assess AI decisions, our interactions with AI systems, and the actions they recommend, as if they came from a human being, we can avert a disastrous and amoral future. Nigel goes beyond the headlines about rampant robots to apply established moral principles to shaping our AI future.