Description:
Professor Gary Marchant will provide an overview of artificial intelligence (AI) and its benefits and risks. With a minimum of technical jargon, he will describe key recent developments – namely machine learning and generative AI – and explain why these new developments have suddenly propelled AI to the forefront of every industry and corner of society, though AI itself has been around for over 70 years. He will also discuss the frenzied pace and race to develop better AI, both between private companies and between the major global superpowers.
Professor Marchant will provide an overview of the many beneficial applications of AI, focusing on medical applications as a case study and explain how AI is rapidly improving research, diagnosis and treatment, while enhancing health care administration. In contrast, he'll address the existing risks already posed by AI to privacy and autonomy, fairness and employment, in addition to future concerns such as military use of autonomous weapons.
Professor Marchant will close by imagining the potential futures of AI, including the Artificial General Intelligence and the implications for our future well-being and survival.
Bio:
Gary Marchant, Ph.D., J.D., M.P.P., is Regents’ Professor and Faculty Director of the Center for Law, Science & Innovation at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. He is also the Clarissa Cerda Professor in Law and Technology at ASU. Professor Marchant’s research interests include the governance of emerging technologies such as genomics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, quantum technology, and blockchain. Prior to joining ASU in 1999, Professor Marchant was a partner at the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis. He has authored more than 200 articles, books and book chapters on governing emerging technologies. He has served on seven National Academies of Science consensus committees (chairing two), and has been elected as a lifetime member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He also chairs the IEEE Working Group (P2863) to create a governance standard for entities that develop or use artificial intelligence. He is a long-time member of the American Humanist Association.
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