Harnessing Promise and Mitigating Risk with Artificial Intelligence - with Nicolas Mialhe, Founder of The Future Society
In this episode:
What is your definition of AI and what role does it play in today’s society? Nicolas Mialhe is a leading expert in artificial intelligence and he says that AI actually has the capacity to supersede government systems and social systems, making it necessary for us to revisit our social contract.
AI has become an intrinsic part of globalization and as it develops and gets enhanced further with each new technological advancement and algorithm that humans put in place, it starts to beg the question of who decides what AI can, and to what extent it will effect change.
Join Philip Guarino in this episode of HAE Invites as he speaks with the co-founder of The Future Society, Nicolas Mialhe, about the growing impact of AI in today’s society and where it’s headed in the future. They also talk about what The Future Society, the work that they do and how it can impact the world of AI, and our own. Stay tuned.
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A Glimpse of What you’ll Learn
Nicolas Mialhe explains his definition of artificial intelligence and its impact on society
The challenges that Nicolas anticipates when it comes to AI and the future of society
The role of powerful global companies in AI and why this will necessitate our revisiting the social contract
Nicolas discusses the globalization of AI and its impact
Why Nicolas says that AI can supersede existing systems and whether it can impact concepts such as free will and privacy
How Nicolas came up with the idea for The Future Society and why he decided to incubate it at Harvard
What The Future Society is doing and how it hopes to impact the deployment and governance of AI
How The Future Society reconciles AI and sustainable development
Resources Mentioned in this episode
Nicolas Mialhe will be featured in an Office Hours on July 21st, 2020. Find out more
Nicolas Mialhe Co-Founder, The Future Society
Nicolas Mialhe is the co-founder of The Future Society, a nonprofit think tank which helps advance the global governance of AI in 2014. Nicolas also co-founded the AI Initiative in 2015, as well as the CitX Initiative and the Science, Law and Society Initiative in 2016. He is one of the foremost experts in artificial intelligence and he has over 15 years of professional experience building partnerships at the intersection of industry, academia, innovation, government, and civil society across Europe, America, Africa, and Asia.
Nicolas is the co-Convener of the Global Governance of AI Roundtable (GGAR) organized yearly during the World Government Summit in Dubai, as well as a member of the AI Group of experts at OECD (AIGO), of the World Bank’s Digital Economy for All Initiative (DE4ALL), and of the Global Council on Extended Intelligence (MIT Media Lab).
Nicolas holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, a Master in Defense, Geostrategy & Industrial Dynamics from Panthéon-Assas University, and a Bachelor of Arts in European Affairs and International Relations from Sciences Po Strasbourg.