Artificial intelligence has become an essential part of our lives — it helps us to navigate and communicate, and is responsible for incredibly accurate medical technology. AI is also responsible for lethal autonomous weapons. It can be used to influence what we buy and how we vote.
Professor Toby Walsh, an Australian Human Rights Institute Associate, is one of the world's leading researchers in AI. His research is concerned with how to ensure our future use of AI is for the good of humanity.
He joined ABC Conversations with Richard Fidler to discuss his new book, Machines Behaving Badly: The Morality of AI.
Listen to the full interview here.