Welcome your robot overlords! In episode 101 of Overthink, Ellie and David speak with Dr. Shazeda Ahmed, specialist in AI Safety, to dive into the philosophy guiding artificial intelligence. With the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT, the lofty utilitarian principles of Effective Altruism have taken the tech-world spotlight by storm. Many who work on AI safety and ethics worry about the dangers of AI, from how automation might put entire categories of workers out of a job to how future forms of AI mi...
Hello and welcome to Overthink, the podcast.
Where two philosophy professors talk about how our discipline has lots of rich tools
for helping us think about contemporary issues.
I am your co host, David Pena Guzman.
And I'm co host Ellie Anderson.
David, the U.S.
state Department recently commissioned a report about how AI employees feel about the safety of their work
and the incentives driving it.
And let's just say the report was not particularly positive.
It turns out that a lot of people working in the field of AI have a lot of concerns about its safety.
Yeah.
And the fact that it's coming from people who work in this industry, I think, is particularly telling indicators,
indicator of the fact that the general population, ourselves included,
don't really know the full extent of the risks that are associated with these new technologies.
It's kind of similar to, you know,
all the people who work for places like Facebook that don't allow their children on social media
because they know just how addictive it is.
So the fact that the people with knowledge of the inside are the ones that are, you know,
raising the red flag should be a sign that should pay attention to this a little bit more.
Yeah.