The Thinkers on AI podcast is an extension of the Doing AI Efficiently newsletter. It showcases perspectives on AI from unique and interesting writers from around the world.
Today’s episode features Dr. Sean Lawson.
Dr. Lawson writes AI with Footnotes, a skeptical enthusiast’s guide to artificial intelligence. What is a skeptical enthusiast? This is a person who is curious, but cautious about AI, acquires hands-on realism (by digging into the details around research, analysis and tools), and has ethical and societal awareness about AI’s potential benefits and risks.
Dr. Lawson is a professor at the University of Utah. His work focuses on the intersections of technology, society and security.
In his post, Everyone Predicted the Wrong 9/11. They’re About to Do It Again With AI, he cautions against techno-doom narratives that will cause us to make the same mistakes we made with 9/11: missing the risks that are right in front of our noses.
In this episode I read excerpts from his essay that I found particularly relevant.
Music Credit: The Cverse Revealed, Composed by Fard Johnmar, 2009
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P.S.: For more on realism, anti-panic and the AI risks you should be paying attention to right now, read my post: The ‘AI Will Kill Us’ Post Got 148 Million Views, But It’s Not the AI Risk You Should Worry About
