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“I’m a big advocate of considering—not being naive to—the ethical implications of AI,” @kaliouby says @scienceSMASH. “I think at the core of it is trust. Should humans trust AI, but also, should #AI trust us? We haven’t always been completely trustworthy as a society.” #SMASH18

“We’ve done this before,” @neurobongo says of tech @scienceSMASH. “There’s tech that could potentially lay waste to humans, but I think there are paths that take us to good places, that lead to more human interactions. To connect with what makes us human.” #SMASH18 #AI

“There have been these studies that show that AI discriminates toward people with darker skin tones, particularly women,” says @kaliouby @scienceSMASH. “The builders of these AI didn’t do this on purpose—we’re simply mimicking the biases that exist in society.” #SMASH18 #AI

“What we do with a lot of technologies is, our innovation surpasses our stewardship,” documentary filmmaker @jrbarrat says @scienceSMASH. “AI moves very quickly, and we have to make sure that stewardship keeps up.” #SMASH18 #AI

“Technology is neutral- it has no valence,” Computer Scientist & NOVA Wonders co-host @kaliouby says @scienceSMASH. “Whether it’s positive or negative is up to its users—us.” #SMASH18 #AI

This deep part in the brain is responsible for emotion, stress: When a seizure happens, what we’ve found is by talking to someone, a person can “come back” & start breathing, @RosalindPicard, founder & director of Affective Computing Research Group @medialab, says @scienceSMASH.

NOVA Executive Producer Paula Apsell (@mamanova) speaks at @scienceSMASH in Boston yesterday during a keynote presentation with optical physicist Mary Lou Jepsen (@mljmljmlj).