With so many artificial systems claiming "intelligence" available to the public, making sure they do what they're designed to is of the utmost importance. Dr. Bruce Draper, Program Manager of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA joins us on this bonus episode of Deep Dive: AI to unpack his work in the field and his current role. We have a fascinating chat with Draper about the risks and opportunities involved in this exciting field, and why growing bigger and more involved Open Source...

Welcome to a brand new episode of Deep Dive: AI! For today’s conversation, we are joined by Mo Zhou, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University and an official Debian developer since 2018. Tune in as Mo speaks to the evolving role of artificial intelligence driven by big data and hardware capacity and shares some key insights into what sets AlphaGo apart from previous algorithms, making applications integral, and the necessity of releasing training data along with any free software. You’ll...

Along with all the positive, revolutionary aspects of AI comes a more sinister side. Joining us today to discuss ethics in AI from the developer's point of view is David Gray Widder. David is currently doing his Ph.D. at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and is investigating AI from an ethical perspective, honing in specifically on the ethics-related challenges faced by AI software engineers. His research has been conducted at Intel Labs, Microsoft, and NASA's Jet...

Because we lack a fundamental understanding of the internal mechanisms of current AI models, today’s guest has a few theories about what these models might do when they encounter situations outside of their training data, with potentially catastrophic results. Tuning in, you’ll hear from Connor Leahy, who is one of the founders of Eleuther AI, a grassroots collective of researchers working to open source AI research. He’s also Founder and CEO of Conjecture, a startup that is doing some...

The mystery that surrounds the possibilities and probabilities of AI is multilayered, and depending on your perspective and involvement with new technology, your access to reliable information and a clear picture of current progress could be obscured in several ways. On the podcast today, we welcome Alek Tarkowski, who is the Strategy Director of Open Future Foundation to talk about some of the ways we can tackle issues of security, safety, privacy, and basic human rights. Tarkowski is a...

What are the copyright implications for AI? Can artwork created by a machine register for copyright? These are some of the questions we answer in this episode of Deep Dive: AI, an Open Source Initiative that explores how Artificial Intelligence impacts the world around us. Here to help us unravel the complexities of today’s topic is Pamela Chestek, an Open Source lawyer, Chair of the OSI License Committee, and OSI Board member. She is an accomplished business attorney with vast experience in...

Welcome to Deep Dive:AI podcast, the first part of an online event from the Open Source Initiative. We’ll be exploring how Artificial Intelligence impacts open source software, from developers to businesses to the rest of us.