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Podcast: The AI in Business Podcast
Episode: [AI Futures] A Debate on What AGI Means for Society and the Species - with Roko Mijic and Roman Yampolskiy
Description: In another installment of our 'AI Futures' series on the 'AI in Business' podcast, we host a debate on what Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will mean for society and the human race writ large. While opinions on the subject diverge wildly from utopian to apocalyptic, the episode features grounded insight from established voices on both sides of the optimism-pessimism spectrum. Representing optimists is philosopher and thinker Roko Mijic, famous for the 'Roko's Basilisk' controversy on the website Lesswrong. On the side of skepticism, we feature Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Louisville and a...