Landmark Oxford forum sees agreement on ‘tech-lash’, but not new laws and regulations to address it
Oxford computer scientist Mike Wooldridge doesn’t lose sleep at night over killer robots, because as he says, developers still can’t get software-based artificial intelligence to tell a proper joke or an interesting story.
But as Wooldridge and colleagues celebrated the achievements of machine learning alongside 500 academics and entrepreneurs last year, speaker after speaker returned to the field’s recent problem areas: from biased algorithms and fake news to privacy breaches and automation-related job losses.
Barney McManigal
Barney McManigal is a journalist and political scientist who teaches at the University of Oxford
