Artificial intelligence: A radical invitation for us to face our own humanity

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Dr. Cornelia Walther, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, is a global thought leader on artificial intelligence. She doesn’t bang the usual drum that AI will eliminate all our jobs, nor does she evangelize that AI will solve all our ills. The truth lies somewhere in the middle, she says, and it’s up to us to define what that looks like. "We can’t expect the technology of tomorrow to live up to values that humans of today are not living up to," Walther says. "That is, in a way, a radical invitation to turn 180 degrees around and face our own humanity." Walther calls it "prosocial AI" — a system designed to bring out the best within itself for people and the planet. Like the work benig done at Penn around AI supporting caregivers of people with disabilities, Walther believes the focus should be on how AI can help those most in need first. Walther takes questions from KYW's Ian Bush. Listen to the full interview here.