This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   I promised to expand on my last TEDx talk (https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_j_scott_how_to_save_us_from_being_left_behind_by_ai), and this is that episode. If you're an aspiring public speaker, you'll hear what went into creating the talk, the inspirations and reasons behind every word, the cycle of how it was built and modified in response to feedback. If you're interested in the ideas that it raised, this episode expands on those and gives you more insight into how AI is setting the pace of life and what that means. Are we on an unsustainable path? How would we get off it? Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   At the intersection of artificial intelligence and law... you'll find Dr. Edward Parson. He's the Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law and director of the AI-PULSE project at UCLA conducting “interdisciplinary research and innovative programming to study how technological advances and scientific knowledge and uncertainties influence law and policy making, and how their impacts can be managed to advance human and societal well-being.” In part 2, we talk about regulation vs the Trolley Problem, Ted's work on longer-term consequences of AI, and what it's like to work on a project like PULSE. All this plus the latest headlines in AI! Here is a link to my University of Victoria continuing studies course on AI: https://bit.ly/UVicAIandYou as mentioned in the episode. Signup deadline: Feb 6. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   At the intersection of artificial intelligence and law... you'll find Dr. Edward Parson. He's the Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law and director of the AI-PULSE project at UCLA conducting “interdisciplinary research and innovative programming to study how technological advances and scientific knowledge and uncertainties influence law and policy making, and how their impacts can be managed to advance human and societal well-being.” We talk about the work of PULSE, sources of bias in AI, and the use of AI in law. All this plus the latest headlines in AI! Here is a link to my University of Victoria continuing studies course on AI: https://bit.ly/UVicAIandYou as mentioned in the episode. Signup deadline: Feb 6. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How does a business successfully deploy #AI, especially if they are new at it? Katie King is a UK-based AI consultant and marketing expert, and member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group task force on AI (APPG-AI). She is the author of the book Using Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: How to Harness AI and Maintain the Competitive Edge, and CEO of the AI in Business consultancy, taking her to locations like Dubai and Singapore, and which I am a partner in. In part 2, we talk about education of AI and how it should shift, and what students entering the job market should do. Reach Katie via LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. All this plus the latest headlines in AI! Here is a teaser opportunity for you readers of show notes: https://bit.ly/UVicAIandYou so you can jump in ahead of the announcement in episode 30! Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How does a business successfully deploy #AI, especially if they are new at it? Katie King is a UK-based AI consultant and marketing expert, and member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group task force on AI (APPG-AI). She is the author of the book Using Artificial Intelligence in Marketing: How to Harness AI and Maintain the Competitive Edge, and CEO of the AI in Business consultancy, taking her to locations like Dubai and Singapore, and which I am a partner in. We talk about how she got into AI consulting, trends that apply to businesses looking to adopt AI, and her work on the APPG-AI. Reach Katie via LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. All this plus predictions for 2021! Here is a teaser opportunity for you readers of show notes: https://bit.ly/UVicAIandYou so you can jump in ahead of the announcement in episode 30! Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   TEDx: The franchise of the TED organization and the venue for speakers on all kinds of thought-provoking topics. What is it like to apply for and give a TEDx talk? This episode is a little different (it's the holidays), and goes into my experiences getting to the TEDx stage (three times) and since then, evaluating technology speakers for one of the premier TEDx events in North America. That TEDx talk is online at https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_j_scott_how_to_save_us_from_being_left_behind_by_ai. All that and our usual look at today's headlines in AI. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Exponential technology such as artificial intelligence causes the complexity of our world to explode. How do we address complexity as an existential risk in itself? Enter Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University, in British Columbia. He describes himself as a Complex Systems Theorist, and has a PhD from MIT in international relations, defense and arms control policy, and conflict theory. His research has focused on threats to global security in the 21st century, including economic instability, climate change, and energy scarcity. He and the Cascade Institute study how people, organizations, and societies can better resolve their conflicts and innovate in response to complex problems. In part 2 of our talk, we continue discussing his latest book, Commanding Hope, Systems Thinking, and how to identify mechanisms for shaping our collective beliefs and attitudes to produce more effective action on, say, climate change. All that and our usual look at today's headlines in AI. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Exponential technology such as artificial intelligence causes the complexity of our world to explode. How do we address complexity as an existential risk in itself? Enter Dr. Thomas Homer-Dixon, director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University, in British Columbia. He describes himself as a Complex Systems Theorist, and has a PhD from MIT in international relations, defense and arms control policy, and conflict theory. His research has focused on threats to global security in the 21st century, including economic instability, climate change, and energy scarcity. He and the Cascade Institute study how people, organizations, and societies can better resolve their conflicts and innovate in response to complex problems. In our talk, we discuss his latest book, Commanding Hope, and the role of hope in empowering us to tackle our biggest problems. All that and our usual look at today's headlines in AI. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.        

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   We tackle the most important question about Artificial General Intelligence - When Will It Happen? Everyone really wants to know, but no one has a clue.  Estimates range from 5 to 500 years. So why talk about it? I talk about how this question was raised in a presentation and what it means to me and all of us. We might not be able to get a date, but we'll explore why it's such a hard question and see what useful questions we can get out of it. All that and our usual look at today's headlines in AI. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Every Johnson should have a Boswell, and the entire artificial intelligence field has Pamela McCorduck as its scribe. Part historian, part humorist, part raconteuse, her books romp through the history and characters of AI as both authoritative record and belles-lettres. Machines Who Think (1979, 2003) and her recent sequel This Could Be Important (2019) help understand the who, what, and why of where AI has come from. In the second half of this interview, we talk about changes in the experience of women in computing, C. P. Snow's "Two Cultures", and the interaction between AI and the humanities, along with more tales of its founding fathers. All that and our usual look at today's headlines in AI. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   Every Johnson should have a Boswell, and the entire artificial intelligence field has Pamela McCorduck as its scribe. Part historian, part humorist, part raconteuse, her books romp through the history and characters of AI as both authoritative record and belles-lettres. Machines Who Think (1979, 2003) and her recent sequel This Could Be Important (2019) help understand the who, what, and why of where AI has come from. In this interview, we talk about the boom-bust cycle of AI, why the founders of the field thought they could crack the problem of thought in a summer, and the changes in thinking about intelligence since the early days. All that and our usual look at today's headlines in AI. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How do you drive a community of futurists? David Wood was one of the pioneers of the smartphone industry, co-founding Symbian in 1998. He is now an independent futurist consultant, speaker and writer. As Chair of the London Futurists, he has hosted over 200 public discussions about technoprogressive topics. He is the author or lead editor of nine books, including Smartphones for All, The Abolition of Aging, Transcending Politics, and Sustainable Superabundance. In the second half of our interview, we talk about OpenAI, economic fairness with the AI dividend, how building an ecosystem with feedback cycles addresses disruption, and how you can participate in shaping the future. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: https://aiandyou.net/ .   How do you drive a community of futurists? David Wood was one of the pioneers of the smartphone industry, co-founding Symbian in 1998. He is now an independent futurist consultant, speaker and writer. As Chair of the London Futurists, he has hosted over 200 public discussions about technoprogressive topics. He is the author or lead editor of nine books, including Smartphones for All, The Abolition of Aging, Transcending Politics, and Sustainable Superabundance. In part 1 of our interview, we talk about David's singularitarian philosophy, the evolution and impact of Deep Learning, and his SingularityNET infrastructure for AI interoperation. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .   Tony Czarnecki is a futurist and a Managing Partner of Sustensis, London – a Think Tank for inspirations for Humanity's transition to coexistence with superintelligence – the final form of an ever faster and more intelligent, self-learning and perhaps even conscious Artificial Intelligence. Tony is the author of several books on the subject of Superintelligence. In this concluding part of our interview, we talk about his latest book in his Posthumans series, "Becoming a Butterfly," and European and global economic structures for sustaining technological evolution. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .   Tony Czarnecki is a futurist and a Managing Partner of Sustensis, London – a Think Tank for inspirations for Humanity's transition to coexistence with superintelligence – the final form of an ever faster and more intelligent, self-learning and perhaps even conscious Artificial Intelligence. Tony is the author of several books on the subject of Superintelligence. In this first part of our interview, we talk about his latest book in his Posthumans series, "Becoming a Butterfly," and discuss the pandemic and what's next. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .   What does it look like to be on the front lines of academic research into making future AI safe? It looks like Roman Yampolskiy, professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, director of their Cyber Security lab and key contributor to the field of AI Safety. With over 100 papers and books on AI, Roman is recognized as an AI expert the world over. In this second part of our interview, we talk about his latest paper: a comprehensive analysis of the Control Problem, the central issue of AI safety: How do we ensure future AI remains under our control? We also discuss the current limitations of AI and how AI may evolve. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .   What does it look like to be on the front lines of academic research into making future AI safe? It looks like Roman Yampolskiy, professor at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, director of their Cyber Security lab and key contributor to the field of AI Safety. With over 100 papers and books on AI, Roman is recognized as an AI expert the world over. In this first part of our interview, we talk about his latest paper, a comprehensive analysis of the Control Problem, the central issue of AI safety: How do we ensure future AI remains under our control? All this and our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .   How will we keep our current and future artificial intelligences ethically aligned with human preferences? Who do we need to help with that? Answer: A philosopher of the use of emerging cognitive technologies. Karina Vold is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and has recently come from the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. She thinks, writes, and speaks about the the evolution of #AI from a philosopher's perspective. In the second half of this interview we learn about value alignment, the Trolley Problem, and just what those institutes do about AI.  Ever wondered whether you could make a living as a philosopher? Karina will tell you how she has. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .   How will we keep our current and future artificial intelligences ethically aligned with human preferences? Who do we need to help with that? Answer: A philosopher of the use of emerging cognitive technologies. Karina Vold is Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto’s Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology and has recently come from the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. She thinks, writes, and speaks about the the evolution of AI from a philosopher's perspective. In this interview we learn about the Philosophy of Mind, the Extended Mind Hypothesis - and find out who Otto and Inga are. Ever wondered whether you could make a living as a philosopher? Karina will tell you how she has. All this and our usual look at today's AI headlines Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .   Have you seen a robot help a troubled child? This week's guest makes one. This is part 2 of the interview with Paolo Pirjanian, who is the former CTO of iRobot and early leader in the field of consumer robotics with 16+ years of experience developing and commercializing cutting-edge home robots. He led world-class teams and companies at iRobot®, Evolution Robotics®, and others.  In 2016, Paolo founded Embodied, Inc. with the vision to build socially and emotionally intelligent companions that improve care and wellness and enhance our daily lives. We will learn more about how Moxie the robot works, what it can do, and Paolo's plans for future robots. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .   Have you seen a robot help a troubled child? This week's guest makes one. Paolo Pirjanian is the former CTO of iRobot and early leader in the field of consumer robotics with 16+ years of experience developing and commercializing cutting-edge home robots. He led world-class teams and companies at iRobot®, Evolution Robotics®, and others.  In 2016, Paolo founded Embodied, Inc. with the vision to build socially and emotionally intelligent companions that improve care and wellness and enhance our daily lives. All this and our usual look at today's AI headlines Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .   We’ve spent all this time talking about artificial intelligence and we know what ‘artificial’ means, but what is ‘intelligence’? Who better to answer that than the International Supervisory Psychologist of Mensa, Kristóf Kovács? He is a senior research fellow at Eötvös Loránd University researching cognitive psychology and psychometrics. Most people are content to define 'intelligence' as 'that which an IQ score measures', - but what if it's your job to write the IQ test? To validate those tests? To know what they mean? How can we know what artificial intelligence is until we understand the real thing? Find out more in this episode, when we also talk about what IQ tests are measuring and how to interpret them, what Mensa does, and Kristóf's research into the g-factor of intelligence. All this and our usual look at today's AI headlines and a description of my upcoming continuing studies course at the University of Victoria on the same theme as this podcast, which is open to online enrollment from all over the world; register at https://bit.ly/UVicAIandYou. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .   We’ve spent all this time talking about artificial intelligence and we know what ‘artificial’ means, but what is ‘intelligence’? Who better to answer that than the International Supervisory Psychologist of Mensa, Kristóf Kovács? He is a senior research fellow at Eötvös Loránd University researching cognitive psychology and psychometrics. Most people are content to define 'intelligence' as 'that which an IQ score measures', - but what if it's your job to write the IQ test? To validate those tests? To know what they mean? How can we know what artificial intelligence is until we understand the real thing? Find out more in this episode! All this and our usual look at today's AI headlines. Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

This and all episodes at: http://aiandyou.net/ .   What happens when two futurists talk with each other? You get this episode, with guest Richard Foster-Fletcher, who is doing amazing work in the UK building learning communities such as MKAI (Milton Keynes AI), he is a graduate of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Strategy Course and is the host of the ‘Boundless: Designing Our Digital Future’ podcast, of which I was the very first guest. In this conclusion of our interview, we talk about how the cultures of organizations facing disruption should change,and some of Richard's experiences in creating forums for debating AI policies. All this and some of today's AI headlines! Transcript and URLs referenced at HumanCusp Blog.  

  What happens when two futurists talk with each other? You get this episode, with guest Richard Foster-Fletcher, who is doing amazing work in the UK building learning communities such as MKAI (Milton Keynes AI), he is a graduate of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Strategy Course and is the host of the ‘Boundless: Designing Our Digital Future’ podcast, of which I was the very first guest. We reach some heady heights talking about the eventual future of humans in symbiosis with AI, even touching on the Kardashev scale! And yet we also brought it back to the here and now with discussions about what AI learning communities are doing right now to help people understand AI more productively. All that and our first look at GPT-3! Transcript at HumanCusp Blog.  

  This show's amazing guest has seen naked brains... while they were still in use. This episode concludes the interview with Dr. Ryan D'Arcy. He is a neuroscientist, pictured here with one of his tools, an MRI machine. He co-founded HealthTech Connex Inc., and serves as President and Chief Scientific Officer. HealthTech Connex translates neuroscience advances into health technology breakthroughs. We met on the TEDx stage in Surrey BC, where he was speaking about how he helped Trevor Greene, a soldier who had his head split by an axe while serving in Afghanistan. See his TEDx talk here. In this episode, we talk about models of the structure of the brain, the role of pattern recognition, brain-machine interfaces by companies such as Neuralink, and how they might - or should - work. All that and of course our usual look at a headline or two about AI. Transcript at HumanCusp Blog.    

This show's amazing guest has seen naked brains... while they were still in use. Dr. Ryan D'Arcy is a neuroscientist, pictured here with one of his tools, an MRI machine. He co-founded HealthTech Connex Inc., and serves as President and Chief Scientific Officer. HealthTech Connex translates neuroscience advances into health technology breakthroughs. We met on the TEDx stage in Surrey BC, where he was speaking about how he helped Trevor Greene, a soldier who had his head split by an axe while serving in Afghanistan. See his TEDx talk here. In this episode, we talk about why he loves to fix broken brains, and what's going on in our brains, with brainwaves, neurons, and - just what is a thought, anyhow? If you want to learn how to harness neuroplasticity to improve your own brain, Ryan tells you how in this episode. All that and of course our usual look at a headline about AI. Transcript at HumanCusp Blog.    

Disruption happens when the future arrives faster than we anticipated. We've had plenty of that lately, but as far as the disruption from artificial intelligence is concerned, it's only warming up. Sink, swim, or surf: how do you want to handle the waves of change AI is bringing? To help us stretch our imagination, this episode concludes the interview with our mind-blowing guests Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, science fiction authors with numerous credits in science fiction and Hollywood for over thirty years, particularly in the Star Trek universe, writing novels such as Memory Prime and Prime Directive and with writer and producer credits on the series Star Trek Enterprise. They’ve helped NASA with visioning future goals through a Space Policy workshop, they’ve helped Disney design theme park rides, and they won the Constellation award for creating the series Primeval: New World. Catch their author page on Amazon. In this episode, we talk about their careers, how to use science fiction to become more creative, possible and likely evolutions of AI and humanity, and implications of brain-machine interfaces.  All that and our customary look at today's headlines in AI. Transcript at HumanCusp Blog.    

Disruption happens when the future arrives faster than we anticipated. We've had plenty of that lately, but as far as the disruption from artificial intelligence is concerned, it's only warming up. Sink, swim, or surf: how do you want to handle the waves of change AI is bringing? To help us stretch our imagination, this episode's mind-blowing guests are Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, science fiction authors with numerous credits in science fiction and Hollywood for over thirty years, particularly in the Star Trek universe, writing novels such as Memory Prime and Prime Directive and with writer and producer credits on the series Star Trek Enterprise. They’ve helped NASA with visioning future goals through a Space Policy workshop, they’ve helped Disney design theme park rides, and they won the Constellation award for creating the series Primeval: New World. In this episode, we talk about their experiences in the world of science fiction and how they've changed with the pandemic, adventures helping NASA, the aspirations of Star Trek, and their thoughts about what advanced AIs would really be like.  All that and our customary look at today's headlines in AI. Transcript at HumanCusp Blog.  

What does one of the nations that has most successfully defended itself against the coronavirus have to teach us about AI? Plenty, when the architect of their digital response to COVID-19 is also a technology genius. In this episode, I conclude my talk with Audrey Tang, Taiwan's Digital Information Minister. She's responsible for Taiwan's "Digital Democracy" and has a sky-high IQ. We talk about the impact of AI on jobs, how AI can be developed transparently, national and international strategies for safe AI advancement, and what Audrey foresees for the next 10 years. What is the responsibility of government to its citizens as technology advances, if that advance may leave some behind? We get into that and much more in this episode. For more on Audrey's "humor vs rumor" approach to combating information warfare, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClmT6bZX5yE. Transcript at HumanCusp Blog. Image credit: Wikipedia.