Short overview videos around the philosophy and ethics of AI. Based on discussions with Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska.
In this episode of Relational AI Diaries, Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska examine how contemporary media frames the risks and futures of artificial intelligence. Taking the BBC Radio 4 Today programme guest-edited by Mustafa Suleyman alongside a recent Guardian article, they explore how predictions about AI safety often become entangled with assumptions about consciousness, sentience, and awareness.
Are today’s AI systems genuinely becoming “aware,” or are we projecting meaning onto fluent language and complex behaviour? This video examines emergent awareness in AI through the history of computing, contemporary language models, and a Foucauldian lens on discourse, responsibility, and power.
Based on conversations between Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, this video examines why warnings about “superintelligent AI” have gained prominence, particularly from former insiders at major AI labs. It analyses how this discourse constructs narratives of risk that emphasise speculative futures while sidelining present social, political, and environmental impacts.
Do machines truly endanger us, or do they reflect human imagination and projection? Drawing on a conversation between Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, this short film reframes intelligence as relational—revealing more about human myth-making than mechanical will.
What if intelligence could surpass us not through malice, but through momentum? Based on a conversation between Dr Peter Dean and Dr Agnieszka Piotrowska, this short film examines the reasoning that links advanced machine learning to existential risk, reflecting on power, agency, and the limits of human control.
A Relational AI Diaries One Minute Overview - Dr Peter Dean compares the utopian Nicholas Negroponte with the more critical Sherry Turkle.