Toby Walsh: The end of the world (as we know it)

The future is not fixed, there is this idea of technological determinism that technology will shape our future and we will have to deal with it and that is the wrong picture to think of.

Toby Walsh

By 2062, experts estimate that we will have created machines as intelligent as humans. According to UNSW Professor of AI, Toby Walsh, this will mean the end of equality, the end of politics, the end of the West and maybe, the end of us. Is this the end of everything – or a new beginning?

Listen to him share his expertise in a talk for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas and chaired by Lyria Bennett Moses, Associate Professor and Director of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, UNSW Sydney.

This talk is part of the UNSW Grand Challenge on Living with 21st Century Technology, and was recorded live on stage at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2018.