About this episode

The episode discusses the black box problem and the acknowledgment of agency in self-aware machine intelligence.

If you don't know how an inteligent machine thinks, how will you know when it has agency? Does it even matter? Mike and Dave talk about the black box problem and how and when we should acknowledge agency in a self aware machine intelligence. Machine Intelligence Foundation Website https://machineintelligencefoundation.org Music "Inspired" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

People in this episode

Hosts: Mike, Dave

Topics covered

• black box problem
• machine agency
• self-aware machine intelligence
• artificial intelligence
• ethics in technology

Keywords

• black box
• agency
• machine intelligence
• self-aware
• ethics
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Machine Intelligence Foundation, Kevin MacLeod

Books & works: Inspired

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