The Agentic Insider

What if we've already lost control? Dr. Mark Brady, Deputy Chief Data Officer of TRMC at KBR Inc., unveils the two AI singularities that could redefine humanity's future. The episode dives into the significance of safe AI, exploring the six laws of safe AI and various facets of AI safety, such as the importance of safety objective functions and the challenges posed by AI evolution and machine learning. The conversation also touches on the applications of AgTech AI in defense and government, and the current capabilities and limitations of autonomous AI agents. To close, Mark shares personal hobbies and offers career advice for aspiring data scientists and future chief data officers.
 
Takeaways:
  • Understanding AI Singularities: Familiarize yourself with the concept of AI singularities. Recognize the symptoms and implications of these singularities on society and technology.
  • Safety Objective Functions: Implement safety objective functions in AI systems to ensure they prioritize human safety over other objectives.
  • Tracking Data Lineage: Recognize the challenges in data lineage and strive to improve transparency and understanding of how data flows through systems.
  • AI Creating AI: Ensure that any AI creating other AI systems includes its own safety objective functions in its creations. This prevents the propagation of unsafe AI systems.
  • Human and AI Coexistence: Consider the potential future coexistence of different intelligences, such as biological, machine, augmented biological, and biological augmented machine, and how they might interact and compete.
  • Large Language Models: Keep abreast of the advancements in large language models and their applications. Understand their current limitations and potential for future development.
Quote of the Show:
  • “If AI is smarter than we are, how are we gonna be able to compete with it? How are we going to be able to make sure something's not going awry? We need AI to help us.” - Mark Brady
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Creators and Guests

Host
Alistair Lowe-Norris
Host
Phillip Swan
Producer
Rayanne Pruitt

What is The Agentic Insider?

Welcome to The Agentic Insider. Join host, Phillip Swan, each week to explore cutting-edge ideas and trends in AI and Data as well as hear from other industry thought leaders in the AI space. This podcast is brought to you by Iridius.AI —committed to Safe and Responsible AI innovation.