Episode 1. Governing Minds - Carbon and Silicon: Ethics, Power and the Architecture of Machine Cognition
Intelligence Explosion: Managing the coming wave of hybrid intelligenceShow Notes
In this inaugural episode of Intelligence Explosion, host Tamim Asey speaks with Professor Elke Schwarz, a political theorist at Queen Mary University London and Vice Chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. She is the author of the acclaimed book Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies and a leading expert on the intersection of emerging technologies, cognition and governance. As artificial systems increasingly simulate human thought and decision-making, we exp...
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