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06 | Is super-intelligent AI around the corner?

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A human soldier stands in rubble of a city and lifts a robot off the ground by its neck.
A future robot uprising may be an exciting idea, but many experts say the problems with AI are more mundane — and here now.(Divaneth-Dias/ iStock / Getty Images Plus)

Behind the rise of AI there's big questions about where this technology is going.

Is it going to be super intelligent — and if that happens — is it going to kill us all?

In our final episode, we're diving into the future and unpacking the full spectrum of expert predictions, from the idea that we're on the brink of creating human-level AI, to fears that AI will make humanity extinct.

Come meet our future AI overlords.

Guests:

Rodney Brooks, world-renowned Australian roboticist, former head of the MIT computer science lab

Michael Georgeff, Australian computer scientist and entrepreneur

Yoshua Bengio, computer scientist at the University of Montreal and expert in neural networks, considered one of the three godfathers of modern AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Harvard Responsible AI Fellow

Michael Wooldridge, professor of computer science, Oxford University

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