Understanding AI: What It Is and Why It’s Important

This presentation is part of the webinar series “Artificial Intelligence: New Social and Ethical Challenges and Opportunities”

Presenter: Brian Green, Ph.D., Santa Clara University
Wednesday, Sept. 10
7–8:15 p.m. EST via Zoom

Artificial intelligence has become a huge buzzword in recent years, surrounded by hype and misconceptions. But current AI is also a truly impressive new technology, capable of doing things that have never been done before, and which humans with previous technologies could never hope to do. This presentation will explain the basics of AI — what it is and what it is not — then get into what is significant about AI, and what we should think about when we or others use it.

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Brian Green, Ph.D., is the director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, and he teaches AI ethics in Santa Clara University’s Graduate School of Engineering.

This is the FIRST in a series of seven presentations. Click the titles below to learn about and register for the remaining presentations.

Presentation 1: Understanding AI: What It Is and Why It’s Important
Presentation 2: The Human and the Machine: Anthropological Questions
Presentation 3: The Social Impacts of Relational AI
Presentation 4: Educating in the Age of AI
Presentation 5: AI and Ethical Questions: The Impact on Health Care
Presentation 6: Environmental Impacts of AI: Hidden Costs and Inequalities
Presentation 7: The Future of AI: Marvel, Menace, and Mystery