About this episode

The episode discusses the risks associated with AI in the context of nuclear decision-making with experts Ankit Panda and Andrew Reddie.

What happens when artificial intelligence enters the most dangerous decision-making systems humans have ever built? In this episode of AI-Curious, we talk with Ankit Panda and Andrew Reddie about the real risks of AI and nuclear weapons. Ankit is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of The New Nuclear Age. Andrew is a professor at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy and faculty director of the Berkeley R...

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Wilser

Guests: Ankit Panda, Andrew Reddie

Topics covered

• AI risks
• nuclear weapons
• decision-making systems
• international policy
• security

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• nuclear war
• policy
• security risks
• decision-making

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, UC Berkeley

Books & works: The New Nuclear Age

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