#17: AI, Compliance And Utopia: Can Tech Actually Make The World Better? - Eric Sydell The Deep View: Conversations podcast

#17: AI, compliance and utopia: Can tech actually make the world better? - Eric Sydell

14d ago 58:54

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I sat down with Dr. Eric Sydell, the founder and CEO of Vero AI, to break down the challenges of oversight, governance and compliance — and the techno-utopia on the horizon — and the ways in which AI can help, hurt, and generally, disrupt everything.

Episode links:

Ethan Molick: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/emollick_if-ai-development-stopped-this-week-we-would-activity-7272747981752176640-nTKX/
What even is AI: https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/artificial-intelligence
Sam Altman says we must regulate AI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/paris-ai-summit-the-smoke-and-mirrors-of-governance
EU AI Act: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/topics/en/article/20230601STO93804/eu-ai-act-first-regulation-on-artificial-intelligence
Challenge of AI regulation: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/report-the-misguided-race-to-regulation
Nurses and AI: https://www.thedeepview.co/p/current-harms-and-the-real-world-impacts-of-algorithmic-decision-making
Preslav Nakov fact-checking LLMs: https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.558/

Outline

0:00 – Intro

2:28 – AI for compliance
4:43 – Overcoming reliability problems

10:16 – Toys VS tools
15:54 – Keeping up with the rate of ‘progress’

22:03 – The challenge of regulation:

28:55 – Balancing AI with the bottom line

34:38 – The problem with ‘Abundance’

43:11 – How to get the good without all the bad

51:17 – Running to and running from technology

55:02 – Looking for optimism

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Artificial intelligence is a complicated topic, bound by a number of complex threads — technical science, ethics, safety, regulation, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, investment and — above all — humanity. On The Deep View: Conversations, Ian Krietzberg, host and Editor-in-Chief at The Deep View, breaks it all down, cutting through the hype to make clear what's important and why you should care.

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