PANEL & FILMS: The AI Project and AI International Film Fest
Panel & Films Events
In conjunction with the AI International Film Festival (aifilmfest.org), the AI Project presents monthly Panel & Films Events.
- Find out more about the last one August 17, 2023 in this audio podcast from Radio KRCL or TV news from ABC4.
- The next Panel & Films event is scheduled for November 16th in San Diego, CA.
The Panels feature industry professionals, filmmakers, professors, journalists, and policy experts.
- On August 17, 2023 we featured AI Expert Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera U of U Professor and Author, Jepson "Ben" Taylor - Chief Data Strategist at Dataiku and NYU, and AI visionary Joachim Peter (Germany).
The evening's program showcased three enlightening films from the Film Festival June competition winners (see aifilmfest.org).
The panel discussed in depth the proposals of the EU and individual states, summarized below.
European AI Act
Envisioning safe, transparent, and non-discriminatory AI systems, the European AI Act applies differently depending on the risks. It bans cognitive behavioral manipulation. High-risk AI systems, if used for critical infrastructure, education, employment, essential services, law enforcement, immigration, and legal interpretation, require pre-approval and monitoring.
All AI models must be prevented from generating illegal content, all content generated by AI must be disclosed, and copyrighted info used for AI training must be disclosed. Users must be made aware they are interacting with AI and have the option not to use it, deepfakes must be disclosed.
US Proposals of Individual States
Proposals in many individual states include for example a ban on personhood for AI, investigations of effects of AI on education, elections and other sectors, regulation of digital bias and privacy, and limitations on AI for political ads, hiring, law enforcement, auto insurance, medical decisions.
None of the proposals are all encompassing, and they all differ greatly from another. This presents enormous and potentially impossible burdens on the content providers to comply with conflicting regulations in different states.
AI - The Challenge
“Because of the great potential of AI, it is important to research how to reap its benefits while avoiding potential pitfalls. Perhaps we should all stop for a moment and focus not only on making our AI better and more successful but also on the benefit of humanity.”
— Stephen Hawking – founder Centre for Theoretical Cosmology
“The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced.”
— Nick Bostrom – founder Future of Humanity Institute
“I think we need something like a Manhattan Project on the subject of Artificial Intelligence.”
— Sam Harris – Cognitive Neuroscientist
AI - The Chances
“AI intelligence is the biggest opportunity of our lifetime to extend and expand human creativity and ingenuity.”
– Ganesh Padmanabhan — CognitiveScale, Inc
“Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.”
— Sebastian Thrun — entrepreneur, educator, and computer scientist
“Everything we love about civilization is a product of intelligence, so amplifying our human intelligence with artificial intelligence has the potential of helping civilization flourish like never before – as long as we manage to keep the technology beneficial.“
– Max Tegmark — president of Future of Life Institute , physicist, cosmologist and machine learning researcher
AI - The Risks
“The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining.”
— Stephen Hawking – founder Centre for Theoretical Cosmology
“The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year timeframe. 10 years at most.”
– Elon Musk – co-founder OpenAI and business magnate
“Artificial intelligence will reach human levels by around 2029. Follow that out further to, say, 2045, we will have multiplied the intelligence, the human biological machine intelligence of our civilization a billion-fold.”
— Ray Kurzweil – author, scientist, futurist, founder of Singularity University
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