AI is masquerading as human – Alan Finkel at Woodend Winter Arts Festival

AI is masquerading as human; how can we respond? with Alan Finkel

AI is everywhere.  Politicians and executives love it because of the promise of increased prosperity through increased productivity.  Regular people use it because it flatters them and gives them easy answers.  However, AI is also beginning to undermine our society and the essence of being human.  For thousands of years, the advances that have formed our modern society were delivered by creative thinkers.  The desire to create and for our creations to be appreciated is innate, as is the desire to appreciate the creations of others.  As humans, we have the right to choose to read books written by humans, listen to music composed by humans and admire art produced by humans.  Increasingly, books, music and art created by AI are being made available for purchase with the claim that they were created by humans.  This deliberate deception makes it difficult for you to choose the creative outputs of your fellow humans.  In this talk, Alan Finkel will consider how we can defend our innate right to the information that will allow us to choose human.

Alan Finkel was Australia’s chief scientist from 2016 to 2020. He is a neuroscientist, engineer and entrepreneur. He led the 2017 National Electricity Market Review and the 2019 development of the National Hydrogen Strategy, and chaired the 2020 panel developing the Low Emissions Technology Roadmap. He is currently special adviser to the Australian government on low-emissions technologies.