Troubling AI - Probing the Algorithm - Media Whatever Podcast with Tommy Shaffer Shane

In this episode your hosts Chris Bilton and Carolina Bandinelli talk to AI policy expert Tommy Shaffer Shane about the descriptive affordances and architecture of AI – how does AI reinforce biases and norms, and how far do humans create or challenge those biases? And how does ‘Artificial Intelligence’ reproduce certain assumptions about the meaning and value of ‘intelligence’? Can the ‘object’ of AI become a ‘subject’, like the robots in the Terminator movies? And should we – really – be worried that AI is going to ‘go rogue’ and destroy the world? 

Tommy is currently an AI Policy Advisor at the Centre for Long Term Resilience. Previously he has led an investigation of online disinformation for the UK government, and acted as an AI consultant with WHO, Stanford University, Unicef, the UN and Google. He is currently working part-time on a PhD at Kings College London on AI safety incidents.

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