
Why AI is more like scissors than a machine gun | Matt Amacker
A deterministic system keeps someone alive 60 percent of the time. A probabilistic one manages 80 percent but cannot explain why. Matt Amacker, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of TurbineOne, argues the higher moral good is measured in lives, even though we refuse to trust the system we cannot explain.
On the company’s five year anniversary, Matt walks Ian Kalin through the origin story, the ethics statement they published before the website, and why he treats AI as a tool only as dangerous as the human employing it.
Topics discussed:
- AI as a tool, human agency defines its morality
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