Part ONE of mini-series
The anti nuclear campaigner and physician Dr. Helen Caldicott organized a two day symposium in February 2015 with an international panel of leading experts in disarmament, political science, existential risk, anthropology, medicine, nuclear weapons and artificial intelligence. They addressed the risk of accidental nuclear war, recently proven facts about a global nuclear winter that can be caused by the unleashing of just a few nuclear weapons, the expanding militarization of space, the power and pathology of the US military industrial complex, privatization of the US nuclear weapons labs, nuclear war crimes in the Marshall Islands, as well as two of the vibrant movements to abolish nuclear weapons, a divestment effort under the title Don’t Bank On The Bomb as well as ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
In this part ONE of a mini series the risk of artificial intelligence is addressed with audio clips from MIT physicist Max Tegmark and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The bulk of the program references writing by Stephen Hawking, Berkeley computer science professor Stuart Russell, and Tegmark and Frank Wilczek, both physics professors at M.I.T. They see Artificial Intelligence and its use in military and technological projects as a grave danger to human survival.
Helen Caldicott and Max Tegmark were recorded by Pacifica Radio on February 28, 2015, at the The New York Academy of Medicine, New York City, NY
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