The Actual Risks of Generative AI - Video Clips
Watch 10 Gen AI Experts in short videos lay out which risks pose real dangers and begin to point out how we might responsibly move forward
This post is the most in-depth way to absorb all we learned in our last Meeting of the Minds to end the summer on the Actual Risks of Generative AI. This tees up a line-up of videos of 10 experts in AI who gave their perspectives in just 5 minutes each.
You can read the essay version that synthesizes what we learned and drops in the occasional quote. Or you can read extended passages from many of these speakers with their best ideas distilled down. But with these videos you can hear each of them out from start to finish.
All these videos can also be watched via the full playlist in their native YouTube, and you can see similar playlists from our previous events at the Reinvent Futures YouTube channel. There are many ways to get up to speed on what are the actual risks of this transformative new technology.
My setup to start the event and my overview of the 10 risks that we examined through the insights of our range of speakers:
The cofounder of one of the first AI companies from the 1980s telling how surprised and amazed he is about the arrival of Gen AI:
A very alarming perspective on how dangerous this tech could be in the hands of the wrong people who want to cause existential harm:
On the excitement & energy streaming into San Francisco’s “Cerebral Valley” scene & what young Gen AI founders are actually worried about:
A “Nerd Diplomat” reports on trips to China & the European Union & sketches out how Open Source could help solve many looming issues:
On how AI will automate many work tasks but that job displacement is a choice that could be successfully handled by businesses & governments:
The AI attacks on the security of corporations & countries will increase and get more complex & we need to prepare now:
The real looming existential threat is climate change & AI could well be the tool we need to solve that threat above all else:
A veteran of the US government’s loose regulation of the internet in the 1990s explains how we can figure out a similar approach with Gen AI:
How re-enforcement learning could help train Gen AI to work out the issues with bias and other current technical problems:
I want to give a thanks to those whose support makes this ambitious project by Reinvent Futures possible, including the development of all these videos. Our partners Shack15 club in the Ferry Building in San Francisco and Cerebral Valley, the community of founders and builders in Gen AI. And our sponsors Autodesk, Capgemini, Slalom and White & Case who help with the resources and the networks that bring it all together. We could not do this without you.