Event Organizer: Informatics Europe
Event Website: https://www.informatics-europe.org/events/webinars.html
Event Overview:
“We are at a crucial moment in human history, when we are automating and offloading to machines the one key asset that has brought our tremendous success so far: our intelligence. At this point, to ask “What could possibly go wrong?” is obviously a rhetorical question. The speaker will explain why he thinks aspects of AI risk can properly be framed as a global environmental problem. But there is also hope, and he will discuss how we might get our act together and steer towards a long and flourishing future.
Olle Häggström is a professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. At present his main research focus is on AI futurology, existential risk and the long-term future of humanity. Of his five books, the two latest are Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Tänkande maskiner: Den artificiella intelligensens framtid (Fri Tanke , 2021). (In Swedish: Thinking Machines: The Future of Artificial Intelligence)”
