Deceit, apathy and desperation - Addressing the uncertain harms of artificial intelligence

"Does WADA have the ability to catch drug cheats today?" 

“No.” Doug Catlin, founder of the modern anti-doping movement.

Elite sport continues to encounter issues relating to anti-doping - bad actors are incentivised to innovate for financial gain, political and social status, and to maintain their own safety. The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence is occurring, and like doping cheats in sport, the evidence to date of how bad actors will leverage AI to dupe, defraud, threaten and endanger others for their own gain is already evident. As with anti-doping measures, authorities and regulators are often unable to proactively imagine the actions or the harms this technological revolution is imposing on our society and economy, yet also seem unable or unwilling to appropriately act with the levers they do have - funding, regulation, enforcement and punishment. 

• Large corporations are working to build and implement responsible and ethical AI management systems, but is this enough? The risks of privacy invasion, dangerous disinformation campaigns, its use to defraud, humiliate and endanger regular people abound, and yet the lessons from twenty years of inaction of regulating social media standards seem to have been ignored. 
• Is what companies say they will do, actually what they do? Recent Responsible AI Index research showed that 86% of respondents were aligning to Australia’s AI Ethics principles yet only 3% were in a maturing phase.
• Do we rely on the actions of each individual company and technology employee to effectively and accurately act and monitor the enormously powerful technologies they are building, iterating and releasing on a day to day basis?

In this session we will explore the uncertainties of what AI could present for our society and economies, discussing the often fundamental camps people can entrench themselves in (e.g. whether uncontrollable AI might cause human extinction or whether AI systems will soon be able to complete the majority of economically useful tasks that humans currently do), and how to create opportunities to loop for understanding both across these camps, while maintaining a prescient wisdom to understand the potential dangers and threats exploding technological capabilities do pose. 

Join leading experts in a supper club roundtable experience with special guest, co-founder and CEO of Tethix, Mathew Mytka, as we explore, discuss and actively workshop what we know, don't know and could work towards in understanding and activating the positive benefits these technology breakthroughs offer us. 

As always, the outstanding @gus_tronomy has the food to tantalise your tastebuds (plant-based, notify of dietaries), while our drinks partners will have your thirsts quenched. Beer from Grifter Brewing, Gin from Ester Spirits, wine from P&V Merchants. 

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