Toby Walsh on AI's threat to intellectual property
All of this information is being poured into these generative AI tools, which is great fun, but none of the value is going back to the people that generated it.
As artificial intelligence takes root in everything from science and social media to politics and policing, world-leading AI expert Toby Walsh seeks to answer a pressing question: can we trust AI or will it increasingly deceive us? Drawing from his recent essay in Griffith Review 80: Creation Stories, he offered a fascinating perspective on our increasing reliance on intelligent and autonomous technology and how we might ensure AI is harnessed as a force for good rather for nefarious ends.
Toby Walsh spoke in Toby Walsh on the Artificial in Artificial Intelligence, an event presented by Sydney Writers' Festival and supported by UNSW Sydney in May 2023.
Toby Walsh
Toby Walsh is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at UNSW and CSIRO Data61, and adjunct professor at QUT. He is a strong advocate for limits to ensure AI is used to improve our lives, having spoken at the UN, and to heads of state, parliamentary bodies, company boards and many other bodies on this topic. He is a Fellow of the Australia Academy of Science and the winner of the prestigious Celestino Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science.
Toby appears regularly on TV and radio, has been profiled by the New York Times and given talks at public and tradeshow events all over the world. He has authored five books on AI for a general audience, the most recent ones entitled The Shortest History of AI and Faking It: Artificial Intelligence in a Human World.
