FODI: The In-Between | 05 | Joanna Bourke & Toby Walsh | Killer robots and the human construction of war

Festival of Dangerous Ideas

By the year 2062, it is predicted that we will have built machines that are as intelligent as humans. Modern weapons will become more autonomous, machines will further infiltrate our daily lives, and the way we think of humanity will be permanently altered. To understand what lies ahead and learn from our past, Ann Mossop sits between Joanna Bourke and Toby Walsh in a conversation about the future of AI, killer robots and what it means to be human. Joanna Bourke is a historian, academic and professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Toby Walsh is a leading researcher in Artificial Intelligence, ARC Laureate Fellow and Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW and CSIRO Data61, and adjunct professor at QUT.