Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

and really highlighted why we need to understand both AI and its effects on society.

Kerry is an AI ethicist and lecturer at the University of Auckland's School of Computer Science, an associate fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

And today we're going to explore some of the key ideas from her talk.

and what they mean for how we understand and use AI.

And since it's been in the news recently, for reasons that we'll get into, I thought it would be a good idea to talk to one of those people.

Dan Williams is an assistant professor in philosophy at the University of Sussex and an associate fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge.

He's also on Twitter at Dan Williams Phil and he has a sub stack called Conspicuous Cognition.

dan writes a lot about ai and its likely impacts and in a field with lots of sloppy thinking and hyperbole dan stands out for the calmness clarity and originality of his thinking when you listen to this conversation you'll see exactly what i mean we talk through the main arguments for and against ai being an existential risk to our species And while Dan is on the skeptical side of this debate, he shows it to us from all sides.