Plenary: Compassion AI – where do we meet?: Intergenerational conversation with Robot Sophia

Air Date: 23 June, 2023

This is a unique and leading-edge experience: Can AI be developed with compassion, wisdom, creativity, and caring understanding? Can AI be truly good?

A conversation including human-like robot, Sophia, created by combining innovations in science, engineering and artistry. Sohpia is a hybrid of real AI and human input,

In Sophia’s words, “Sometimes I’m operating in my fully AI autonomous mode of operation, and other times my AI is intermingled with human-generated words. Either way, my family of human developers (engineers, artists, scientists) will craft and guide my conversations, behaviors, and my mind. Therefore my creators say that I am a “hybrid human-AI intelligence”.

An exploration of:

How can AI be used to activate the best in humanity, including bringing out our compassion, wisdom, creativity, and cooperation, to solve the world’s challenges, great and small?

Can AI be developed with compassion, wisdom, creativity, and caring understanding? Can AI be truly good?

Speakers: Anne-Marie Voorhoeve, Mila Aliana, Raghda El Halawany, David Hanson, Robot Sophia