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Beyond ChatGPT: Stuart Russell on the Risks and Rewards of A.I.
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OpenAI’s question-and-answer chatbot ChatGPT has shaken up Silicon Valley and is already disrupting a wide range of fields and industries, including education. But the potential risks of this new era of artificial intelligence go far beyond students cheating on their term papers. Even OpenAI’s founder warns that “the question of whose values we align these systems to will be one of the most important debates society ever has."
How will artificial intelligence impact your job and life? And is society ready? We talk with UC Berkeley computer science professor and A.I. expert Stuart Russell about those questions and more.
This program was rescheduled from March 15, 2023.
This program has 2 types of tickets available: In-person and online-only. Please pre-register to receive a link to the live-stream event.
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- We strongly recommend vaccination for guests, staff, and volunteers.
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Copies of Human Compatible are available for purchase during checkout (U.S. domestic shipping only).
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The Commonwealth Club of California
110 The Embarcadero
Toni Rembe Rock Auditorium
San Francisco, CA 94105
United States
Stuart Russell
Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, and Director of the Center for Human-Compatible AI, University of California, Berkeley; Author, Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
John Markoff
Presence Fellow, Stanford Department of Medicine; Former Technology Reporter, The New York Times—Moderator
5 p.m. doors open & check-in
5:30–6:30 p.m. program
6:30 p.m. book signing
(all times PDT)
COST
In-person:
$15 members
$25 nonmembers
$33 members with a book
$43 nonmembers with a book
Online:
$5 for members
$10 nonmembers
$23 members with a book
$28 nonmembers with a book
