Koohan Paik-Mander - The Nuclear Legacy of Artificial Intelligence

Program Title: Koohan Paik-Mander - The Nuclear Legacy of Artificial Intelligence
Description: We hear from many quarters that "AI will destroy the world." But everyone's got a different scenario for what that means. The most sensational perspectives come from theorists like Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called "godfather of AI" or industrialists like Elon Musk. They warn us that one day, a superintelligent AI could replace human beings in controlling the planet. But we don't need to make conjectures. The scorched-earth destruction is already happening. Jobs are hemorrhaging with no sign of return. Data centers are turning U.S. farmlands into barren industrial gulags while consuming record levels of power, spewing volumes of carbon and using up our last freshwater sources. Fusillades of deep-fake videos politically paralyze the public. An AI surveillance infrastructure is being constructed that will lock in fascism. And algorithms are telling ICE and the IDF who lives and who dies. It seems all too overwhelming. However, by tracing AI's lineage to the development of the atom bomb -- with the same ideologies and twisted logic -- it becomes apparent that solutions to the AI dilemma can also be found in nuclear history, and in its disarmament successes.

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Featured Speakers/Guests: Koohan Paik-Mander is a journalist, author and peace and environmental activist. She is a co-founder of the Tech Critics Network and serves on the board of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. Her articles appear in The Nation, The Progressive, Foreign Policy in Focus, and other publications.

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