Insights into Artificial Intelligence with Steve Garan

What happens when two of the world’s most brilliant minds collide on the direction of artificial intelligence? Listen to this spirited podcast as the guest and host engage in intellectual fisticuffs on the following issues:

• Is AI a dehumanization tool?
• Can brain-computer interfaces be used by authoritarian governments to achieve mind control?
• Where does the line of demarcation lie between software and AI?
• How do consumer-oriented AI programs like ChatGPT work?
• Is there a kill-switch for AI?
• How would one know if AI programs designed to test other AI programs are meritorious or simply digital snake oil?
• Will AI cause mass unemployment? 
• Which industries are most likely or least likely to be impacted by AI?
• What kinds of fraud will be very easy to commit with AI?
• Will AI be sophisticated enough to write patents and legal contracts?
• How is lie detection AI programmed? 

Guest Speaker:  Steve Garan, Director of Bioinformatics, Center for Research & Education on Aging 

Steven A. Garan is the Director of Bioinformatics at the Center for Research & Education on Aging (CREA) and serves on its Advisory Board. He is also a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. While at the University of California, Berkeley, he played a major role in the invention and the development of the Automated Imaging Microscope System (AIMS).