AI Ethics with Jonathan Salter.
Overview
- Date:Starts 7 October 2025, 13:15Ends 7 October 2025, 14:15
- Location:Zoom, register to receive the link
- Language:English
- Last sign up date:7 October 2025
Abstract:
Worried about AI taking over the world? After this talk, you may be tempted to thank the people who were worried first. This presentation reveals the deep intertwinement of the AI safety movement with the development of modern AI. These paradoxical outcomes will be historicized, arguing that many of the movement’s actions have proven to be counter-productive accelerators of the very thing they sought to prevent.
Bio:
Jonathan Salter is an AI safety advocate, non-profit entrepreneur, community builder, and political scientist. His significant contributions include co-founding AI Safety Collab, a highly impactful non-profit focused on advancing AI safety field-building; directing Effective Altruism Stockholm since 2019; and founding and leading PauseAI Sweden, an initiative whose advocacy efforts have been featured prominently in mainstream Swedish media. He brings 12 years of experience within the AI safety movement, and holds a B.A. in Political Science from Stockholm University.
- Full Professor, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematical Sciences