Toby Walsh -2023

Toby Walsh -2023

Toby Walsh is a Professor of AI at UNSW Sydney. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN, and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many other bodies on this topic. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science, and was named on the international "Who's Who in AI" list of influencers. He has authored three books on AI for a general audience,"2062: The World that AI Made" which looks at the potential impact AI will have on our society and the most recent entitled "Machines Behaving Badly: the morality of AI

Session

The Ethics of AI - We don't need no thought control!

Global Bio India 2023 Auditorium 1 (Level 2), Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi
In artificial intelligence, neural networks are systems that are like the human brain in the way they learn and process information. They enable AIs to learn from experience, as a person would. This is called deep learning. However, there is a sinking feeling in the AI community that chatbots could soon overtake the level of information that a human brain holds. With great power comes great responsibility, and people have voiced concerns about the potential dark side of the technology that span the threat of disinformation fuelled by convincingly generated photos, videos, and stories and AI's impact on the job market and the potential for widespread unemployment. As AI continues to evolve and shape our world, we have the experts telling us like it is.