NonProphets

NonProphets


Ep. 39: Can We Trust AI Judgments?

September 05, 2017

Episode 39 of the NonProphets podcast, in which Atief, Robert, and Scott announce that IARPA's new Hybrid Forecasting Competition is looking for volunteer forecasters (00:19), interrupt their own discussion to explain that some of the podcast audio was lost due to what they believe was an attack by a rogue AI (06:28), discuss to what extent we can trust the output of AI forecasters (08:09), talk about the "value-alignment problem" in AI design (21:39), and return to the question of how much we can trust AI before the podcast is mysteriously cut off (26:46). As always, you can reach us at nonprophetspod.wordpress.com, or nonprophetspod@gmail.com. (recorded 8/16/2017)