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What’s the difference between human brains and AI? Can AI evolve to think for itself? If it can, will we still be able to control it?
This talk starts with an overview of scientific research on neurons. Then Wenjun addresses related ethical concerns in brain science, examining the moral implications of advances in neurotechnology and the potential impact on personal identity and autonomy. She goes on to discuss the possibility that AI could evolve to have their own thoughts and to consider the potential consequences of such a development. Are minds the last dignity we can defend for ourselves as humans? And how do we develop science and safeguards to help to defend the autonomy of our minds?
If you open this brief document you will be able to click on links to the sources given in the presentation: Wenjun Xia – AI reference links 2024
Wenjun Xia – known also as June – earned her Masters and PhD degrees in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. She went on to work as an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences in Jiangsu University in China before becoming a Visiting Professor at the School of Computing, University of Leeds, collaborating with Professor Netta Cohen* and Dr Marc de Kamps on neuroscience. Her publications include a paper, collaborating with other scientists, that was published in Nature Neuroscience.
*In 2021 Netta Cohen gave a talk to the Phil & Lit on AI which you can find here.
