What do tech pioneers think about the AI revolution? – BBC World Service
BBC World Service
17 May 2025

What do tech pioneers think about the AI revolution? – BBC World Service





Three leading engineers discuss the impact of the AI revolution.

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Intelligent machines are remaking our world. The speed of their improvement is accelerating fast and every day there are more things they can do better than us. There are risks, but the opportunities for human society are enormous.

Three engineers at the forefront of that revolution come to London to join Caroline Steel and a public audience at the Great Hall of Imperial College.

Regina Barzilay from MIT created a major breakthrough in detecting early stage breast cancer. She also led the team that used machine learning to discover Halicin, the first new antibiotic in 30 years.

David Silver is Principal Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. He led the AlphaGo team that built the AI to defeat the world’s best human player of Go.

Paolo Pirjanian founded Embodied, and is a pioneer in developing emotionally intelligent robots to aid child development.

Producer: Charlie Taylor

00:00 Introduction
02:10 How AI could be used to detect cancer early
03:47 Gaming and reinforcement learning
05:42 Robot companions
07:08 What can AI do to detect cancer that humans can’t?
08:12 Can computers learn to be intuitive?
09:45 How robots can build emotional bonds
10:42 The first AI influenced antibiotic
12:26 Narrow AI vs Artificial general intelligence
13:43 Why isn’t AI used in medicine more?
15:05 Can “emotional” AI help humanity to be come better?
16:23 Should we use AI to create art and culture?
17:43 Audience questions
18:15 Should you have to understand the consequences of AI before using it?
20:09 Are robots going to take all our jobs?
21:39 Can AI help with sport performance?
22:59 Will depending on AI stop humans from learning?

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@vansf3433

Those who have created AI have not been able to understand correctly what it can do and what it can never do.
What AI can do is nothing else other than echoing human-invented fictional notions more coherently and
accurately, according to human arbitrarily unprovable dictated rules designed to serve human subjective purposes
What it can actually outdo humans is that it can understand actual values of human-invented notions objectively and
better than humans, while all humans have fundamentally misunderstood their own invented fictional notions,
mistaking their carefully structured imagination for objective reality
Intelligence is not mimicking subjective understanding of the observed as totally misunderstood by all

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@drtacos

I am hopeful for the future but also terrified. A few items in this should concern people. They mention we should understand the consequences before developing something. This is similar to the thoughts when developing first dynamite and then the atomic bomb. Not just “what can we do” but “how can others misuse this”. This AI revolution its a new massive pandoras box that has been opened. My concern is when it comes to times of war. There was mention of how ethical restriction may not be shared by all nations, and how that may cause a non restrictive nation to gain an advantage in the “arms race”. This is in times of peace. During times of war countries are far less interested in ethical restrictions and more on defeating the enemy. There was mention “what if einstein had this?” yes, but what if any historical military leader had this. It is very easy to see a bomb and understand its destructive nature, and have mutual annihilation keep us from full out atomic war. But it is far more difficult to see any potential pitfalls of AI, especially as it develops faster. It is very easy to imagine a moment where the wildfire escapes our control and speed of understanding and does something unexpected and world changing, in a very bad way, most likely unintentionally. And I don’t know how to prevent that.

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