The Boundless Podcast

Danilo McGarry is the Global Head of Automation at Alter Domus. Previously he was one of the Heads of Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning at CitiGroup and senior manager of Automation in UnitedHealth Group. He is an advisor to the European Union Commission AI Alliance and has been published in The Times Newspaper and InfoMoney.

In this episode, I asked Danilo the quickfire bonus questions.

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Danilo McGarry is the Global Head of Automation at Alter Domus. Previously he was one of the Heads of Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning at CitiGroup and senior manager of Automation in UnitedHealth Group. He is an advisor to the European Union Commission AI Alliance and has been published in The Times Newspaper and InfoMoney.
This is part two of two of my conversation with Danilo. In this episode we talked about the future of work and how AI is transforming companies. How HR is lacking behind in understanding and using AI and Robots. How and where automation is removing jobs and whether employees are sometimes digging their own graves when being asked to train up software robots that carry out human-level tasks. We talked human-machine evolution, population trends and why some people want to extend the timeline of human existence and conquer new worlds.

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Danilo McGarry is the Global Head of Automation at Alter Domus. Previously he was one of the Heads of Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning at CitiGroup and senior manager of Automation in UnitedHealth Group. He is an advisor to the European Union Commission AI Alliance and has been published in The Times Newspaper and InfoMoney.

This is part one of two of my conversation with Danilo. In this episode we talked about the effects of AI on equality and how members of superpowers will become super-thinkers by adopting technology like brain augmentation systems. The impact of BCI systems like Neuralink on society and privacy. We looked ahead at how schooling needs to change and what we should be using our brains for in the future as AI picks up more of the cognitive slack. We discussed new reward systems as the job market changes and lifetime longevity increases and the new modalities about success and choice theatre needed. Finally we talked about what could happen when we create new species of human through technological induced evolution.

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Matt is a member of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory where his main interests span the ethical, philosophical and societal implications of robotics and automation technology. He’s also Associate Head of the Department of Engineering and Mathematics at UWE, Bristol, where he leads the research portfolio.

In this episode I asked Matt a series of bonus questions about life, the universe and everything.

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Dr. Matt Studley is a member of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory where his main interests span the ethical, philosophical and societal implications of robotics and automation technology. He’s also Associate Head of the Department of Engineering and Mathematics at UWE, Bristol, where he leads the research portfolio.

In this episode we talked about the playoff between robot functionality and human trust. About job replacement and whether the use of robots should necessitate additional taxes. Human-Robot Augmentation and the ownership of moral responsibility. Finally, we discussed robot self-preservation.

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David obtained his PhD in Communications Technologies and Systems from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). As a researcher, his work touched a variety of fields, from human-computer interaction to machine learning, speech processing, sensor networks and Artificial Intelligence. David also has a strong interest in ethics and philosophy of mind, particularly regarding the subjective experience of animals.
In this episode, David answers the Boundless bonus questions.

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David obtained his PhD in Communications Technologies and Systems from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). As a researcher, his work touched a variety of fields, from human-computer interaction to machine learning, speech processing, sensor networks and Artificial Intelligence. David also has a strong interest in ethics and philosophy of mind, particularly regarding the subjective experience of animals.
In this episode, all of these topics combined. I asked David to explain why it is that we perceive that Artificial Intelligence is making giant leaps and how fallacies about AI-human level intelligence started. We talked about whether machines could ever tap into consciousness and how intelligent machines are different to human intelligence. We discussed how intelligence is affected by innate programming, computation, choice and evolution and David framed our conversation by referencing the differences between dualist and materialist thinking.
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This is the bonus questions with Phil D Hall and Rik Lander

Phil delivers integrated artificial intelligence chat systems that challenge socio-cultural, ethical and anthropological rationale. His objective is to create human to AI interaction systems that help to navigate the journey to successful human-machine relationships. He is one part of the I am Echoborg show a theatrical show created afresh each time by an audience having a conversation with an artificial intelligence.

Rik is a conversation designer for AI chatbots and on the research team at the University of the West of England exploring how different “behaviours” expressed by an artificially intelligent training bot alter its relationship with users and the effectiveness of the training. He is the co-deviser of I am Echoborg.
If you want to know what talking to a sentient AI would be like then visit www.echoborg.com

In this episode I asked Phil and Rik when and how did the algorithms in social media start to go wrong and promote polarisation and extreme content. Whether the market for attention that is driven by behavioural economics will move from social media to chatbots. What exactly is so bad about AI-driven surveillance capitalism and what it means to be in the echochamber online.
We talked about keeping the human in the loop when creating conversations with AI and the truth behind home smart speakers. It was an illuminating conversation, at times it was hard to hear as this is some of the darker side of AI. But overarchingly I found Phil and Rik to be upbeat on technology with insights into how we create more positive AI and more positive living.

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Phil D Hall delivers integrated artificial intelligence chat systems that challenge socio-cultural, ethical and anthropological rationale. His objective is to create human to AI interaction systems that help to navigate the journey to successful human-machine relationships. He is one part of the I am Echoborg show a theatrical show created afresh each time by an audience having a conversation with an artificial intelligence.

Rik Lander is a conversation designer for AI chatbots and on the research team at the University of the West of England exploring how different “behaviours” expressed by an artificially intelligent training bot alter its relationship with users and the effectiveness of the training. He is the co-deviser of I am Echoborg.
If you want to know what talking to a sentient AI would be like then visit www.echoborg.com

In this episode I asked Phil and Rik when and how did the algorithms in social media start to go wrong and promote polarisation and extreme content. Whether the market for attention that is driven by behavioural economics will move from social media to chatbots. What exactly is so bad about AI-driven surveillance capitalism and what it means to be in the echochamber online.
We talked about keeping the human in the loop when creating conversations with AI and the truth behind home smart speakers. It was an illuminating conversation, at times it was hard to hear as this is some of the darker side of AI. But overarchingly I found Phil and Rik to be upbeat on technology with insights into how we create more positive AI and more positive living.

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This episode is the bonus questions asked of Dina-Leigh Simons.

Dina is undertaking her Masters in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield with plans to pursue a PhD within the area of tropical ecology and conservation. Her interest is around the socioeconomic costs and benefits of wildlife conservation and how to halt biodiversity loss in the face of environmental pressures such as climate change and a growing population. She’s also studied at the National University of Singapore and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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