The Symbolic World

299 - Dr. Paula Boddington - A.I. Ethics

07.20.2023 - By Jonathan PageauPlay

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Paula Boddington returns to the channel for us to discuss new developments in artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, ethics, healthcare, the meaning of intelligence, and how AI is exposing how some of our current ways of doing things don’t work, and maybe they haven’t been working for a while.Paula Boddington is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Healthcare at the University of West London where she works with a research group concerned with the quality of care for hospital patients who are also living with dementia. She has held academic posts at the Australian National University, Bristol University, Cardiff University, and Oxford University, and has degrees in philosophy, psychology, and law from Keele, Oxford, and Cardiff Universities. She has a long-standing interest in ethical and social questions in new technologies, including artificial intelligence.YouTube version: https://youtu.be/jj69RnoE9qI----------Previous discussions with Paula Boddington:- How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Humanity - With Dr. Paula Boddington: https://youtu.be/jti77KQKYuc- Digital ID and Control | with Dr. Paula Boddington: https://youtu.be/a9VeKqd6szA - Biotech Creation Myths - with Dr. Paula Boddington: https://youtu.be/a9VeKqd6szA ----------Her recent book on this topic, AI Ethics: A Textbook (Artificial Intelligence: Foundations, Theory, and Algorithms) by Paula Boddington:- Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Artificial-Intelligence-Foundations-Algorithms-ebook/dp/B0BSGKRYTW- Springer: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-9382-4—--------------------Timestamps:00:00:00 - Preview clip00:00:46 - Intro music00:01:11 - Introduction00:01:52 - Various aspects of AI00:04:12 - ChatGPT00:09:36 - Power and intention00:11:02 - What it means to do something00:12:52 - Imposing limitations00:13:44 - Paula's book00:17:35 - Intelligence is only one part of us00:19:35 - Public trust in AI00:26:37 - Embodied living00:29:32 - Medically assisted dying00:31:39 - Machine doctors00:32:21 - "This is going to save time"00:33:58 - A return to embodied experience00:43:35 - Keeping the passions under control00:49:57 - Fetishize—--------------------

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