The Case Against Sentient Artificial Intelligence - Christopher S. Penn - Marketing Data Science Keynote Speaker

Ask any layperson about their greatest fears when it comes to artificial intelligence, and they think immediately in terms of what they've seen in modern entertainment. Killer robots, killer cars, killer drones – you name it, someone's made a movie of it. These cinematic AIs have one thing in common: they are, or border on, sentience, on self-awareness. From Tony Stark's JARVIS and FRIDAY to Michael Knight's KITT, these machines behave with sentience. By sentience, we mean the ability to subjectively experience things like pleasure or pain, feelings, and emotions.