Professor Toby Walsh is one of the world’s leading researchers in Artificial Intelligence & has recently returned from lobbying the UN to ban lethal autonomous weapons, aka Killer Robots.
In his book “It’s Alive”, Toby considers the broader societal and philosophical questions of what happens when robots think and will they really fill our battlefields, take our jobs and eventually rule the world.
In conversation we discuss the scale of war if we allow robots to kill without conscience or consequences; the ethics of biased programming; the development of sentience; and just how truly safe the job of a writer really is.
You can follow Professor Toby Walsh on Twitter @tobywalsh
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