Artificial Intelligence Symposium highlights

The first panel of the symposium began at 11:05 a.m. and reached a broad range of topics during the discussion entitled "The good, the bad, and the ugly of AI and robotics." The speakers of the panel included Jason Millar, assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Cindy Grimm, associate professor of mechanical engineering, Geoffrey Hollinger, assistant professor in the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute at OSU and Stephanie Jenkins, assistant professor in the School of History, Philosophy and Religion at OSU. The panel then allowed each speaker to give a brief opinion of what the greatest risk and the greatest benefit of the widespread adoption of AI and robotics are. Grimm began by explaining that a large benefit of AI will be its ability to complete simple tasks, allowing people more time to tackle larger issues. Grimm went on to explain that the flip side of this is as AI becomes more common in daily, simple tasks, the public may become too trusting of these systems and allow them to make decisions that may be beyond their capability.