Rise of the machines: how worried should we be about AI?

If there’s a 10% chance that human-level artificial intelligence (AI) would lead to existential risk or an “extremely negative outcome”, what would you do? We get the experts to weigh in on the development of AI and untangle the deep, complex questions it raises.

We use AI every day in our smartphones, home, banking and many other ways. Yet the godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton has warned that AI is an existential threat and the founder of OpenAI – of ChatGPT fame – said AI could lead to human extinction. Just how real is the threat?

And what’s really driving AI – or what should be the drivers to develop AI responsibly?

Join our experts to discuss the challenges and consequences of AI:

• Rebecca Johnson, tech ethics researcher in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney; 

• Dr Sandra Peter, Director of Sydney Executive Plus and expert on emerging trends and technology from University of Sydney Business School; 

• Jose-Miguel Bello Villarino, Research Fellow at Sydney Law School and ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S); and

• Host Ariel Bogle, technology reporter.