Artwork
iconShare
 
Manage episode 485484809 series 3551296
Content provided by SMU Staff. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by SMU Staff or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://staging.podcastplayer.com/legal.

SMU Professor Robert Hunt sees the benefits of Artificial Intelligence when it comes to scientific and medical advances. The discovery of new drugs and potentially new and clean energy sources will be expedited because of AI. But Hunt, the author of the new book "All Brain And No Soul — Real Humanity in an AI Age," worries about the cost to humanity to accomplish these goals. Hunt feels we should have one eye fixed on the progress AI can bring to the world — but the other focused on the cost it exacts from our collective humanity: "If we treat a computer like a human, we may start treating ourselves like computers."

Contact SMU Perspectives

  continue reading

8 episodes