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April 03, 2019

Artificial intelligence: Is it worth the risk?

Robots and artificial intelligence aren’t just rising — they’re here, reshaping our digital landscape. AI is revolutionizing highways, hospitals and homes, from driverless cars to automated medical devices and delivery drones. The rewards are promising, but at what cost? And who’s left out?

The risks and unintended consequences of AI are not evenly distributed or transparently regulated: data breaches, identify theft, job loss, widening wealth inequality and human rights violations that challenge top programmers and policymakers to search for safeguards. But AI also promises to cure diseases, improve climate science and save more lives.

Is AI worth the risk? Is the revolution even containable? Could we pull the brakes if we tried?

Participants in this video

Muthoni Wanyoike

Muthoni Wanyoike

Kenyan data scientist

Joy Buolamwini

Joy Buolamwini

Ghanaian American computer scientist and digital activist

Nick Bostrom

Nick Bostrom

Swedish Philosopher, Author and director of Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute

Dex Torricke-Barton

Dex Torricke-Barton

British communications executive

Govinda Clayton

Govinda Clayton

Doha Debates Connector, Senior Researcher in Peace Processes at ETH Zurich

Ghida Fakhry

Ghida Fakhry

Doha Debates Moderator

Nelufar Hedayat

Nelufar Hedayat

Doha Debates correspondent & host of Course Correction and #DearWorldLive

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