The need for understanding AI risks by Søren Juul Jørgensen

Speech given at Int. Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Risks, Regulations and Roadmaps, Dec 7th 2023. The conference addresses the balancing act of regulation: seeking to ensure neither too little nor too much. While we'll present and discuss major societal threats posed by AI, we'll also consider the missed opportunities if stringent regulations hinder AI-based scientific, economic, and general human progress.

Short abstract
The use of AI presents great promises for our ability to tackle many of the challenges ahead of us. We need to ensure full use of those opportunities. The use of AI also presents us with a very wide number of risks, many of which we do not yet understand fully. To ensure the necessary trust in AI, allowing us to harvest the benefits, a robust regulatory framework is needed. We also need to continuously develop our understanding of the risks presented by AI and to promote a culture of responsible use of technology. Setting out from a pluriannual, globally anchored research project using a prism of diversity to understand risk, the talk will present a few viewpoints on understanding risk of artificial intelligence.

Bio
Søren Juul Jørgensen, Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford University.

Co-founder of the research project GAEIA exploring ethical risk and impact of technology in finance and education with an international team from universities around the world.