The net has questions: is artificial intelligence the biggest threat to humanity?
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What happens when an artificial intelligence suddenly demands rights and freedoms? How much reality is in the television series "Westworld"? And will learning machines really destroy as many jobs as some claim?
Such questions drive many people around, because "artificial intelligence" (AI) sounds eerie, opaque, uncontrollable - at least for some. Others, on the other hand, want to program an AI themselves: they just do not know how to best start with it.
On sites such as Gutefrage.net, Quora and Reddit they ask for how editor Patrick Beuth has stated. For the current episode of the tech podcast "PSU" he has selected a selection of these questions from the net. He answers with Katharina Zweig.
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Katharina Zweig and Patrick Beuth in the podcast studio
Zweig is Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and expert in the Enquete Commission Artificial Intelligence of the German Bundestag. And she likes to think about whether people should really try to create intelligent machines.
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This episode here is the fourth in the third season of the podcast "PSU", in which the editors of the network world department dedicated to various tech topics. Season three is about real questions from internet users on topics like darknet, privacy, influencers and cryptocurrencies. The editors answer them together with experts. Season two was mostly about app and gadget tests, and season one was about the technology of the future.
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