Imagine a future where we interact regularly with a range of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) assistants — and where millions of assistants interact with each other on our behalf. These experiences and interactions may soon become part of our everyday reality. In this episode, host Hannah Fry and Google DeepMind Senior Research Scientist Iason Gabriel discuss the ethical implications of advanced AI assistants. Drawing from Iason's recent paper, they examine value alignment, anthropomorphism, safety concerns, and the potential societal impact of these technologies.
Further reading: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/the-ethics-of-advanced-ai-assistants/
Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
01:10 Definition of an AI assistant
04:58 A utopic view
6:46 Iason's background
08:12 The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants paper
13:46 Anthropomorphism
14:52 Turing perspective
16:23 Anthropomorphism continued
21:23 The value alignment question
23:52 Deception
29:01 Deployed at scale
30:34 Agentic inequality
33:08 Unfair outcomes
36:40 Coordinated systems
41:05 Tetradic value alignment
44:07 The future
45:06 Reflections from Hannah
Thanks to everyone who made this possible, including but not limited to:
Presenter: Professor Hannah Fry
Series Producer: Dan Hardoon
Editor: Rami Tzabar, TellTale Studios
Commissioner & Producer: Emma Yousif
Music composition: Eleni Shaw
Camera Director and Video Editor: Daniel Lazard
Audio Engineer: Perry Rogantin
Video Studio Production: Nicholas Duke
Video Editor: Bilal Merhi
Video Production Design: James Barton
Visual Identity and Design: Eleanor Tomlinson
Production support: Mo Dawoud
Commissioned by Google DeepMind
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