The promise and threat of artificial intelligence

May 21, 2015

Artificial Intelligence might soon be as ubiquitous as electricity in our everyday lives. The possibilities are seemingly endless.
But some argue that the rise of intelligent machines pose a grave threat to
humanity. We discuss how artificial intelligence might change the world as we
know it.

Guests in the studio:
Theo Kanter, Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University.
Christian Smith, assistant professor in Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Kristina Nilsson Björkenstam, PhD, Computational Linguistics, Stockholm University.

On Skype: Jürgen Schmidhuber, Professor in Artificial Intelligence, Scientific director at the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA.

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