Peter J. Scott | Source | Founder at Next Wave Institute
Peter J. Scott
Peter Scott is helping us to get along with artificial intelligence. A Master’s degree in computer science from Cambridge University led him to spend more than thirty years working for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, helping advance our exploration of space. A parallel pursuit of the human development field as a certified coach positioned him to recognize and address technological disruption. The births of his children brought him into a mission, to help people understand, use, and advance AI for the betterment of all. He has given TEDx talks, spoken to audiences as diverse as transformational leaders, executives, and British parliamentarians, and created a program to train coaches in helping clients become resilient to exponential disruption. In 2020 he started the Artificial Intelligence and You podcast, bringing together expert guests as diverse as politicians, CEOs, philosophers, developers, and artists to help audiences understand this incredibly complex thing called AI. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.
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TEDx - Peter J. Scott: How to Save Us from Being Left Behind by AIWe now check our email and messages on average every six minutes. Feel like technology is making you work harder and faster? It’s just getting started. What will happen as artificial intelligence blossoms? “Yet we’re not in a duel with AI – it’s a partnership,” says futurist Peter Scott, “and it’s forcing us to decide what it means to be human.” In his clear, witty talk, learn how to survive and thrive in the AI revolution. -
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TEDx - Peter Scott: What You Can Do to Make AI Safe for HumanityDebate rages over whether artificial intelligence could cross a threshold of awareness that would cause it to pose an existential risk to the human race. If that were to happen, though, how might it come about, and what could we do now to be ready? Futurist and technologist Peter Scott walks through some of the forces propelling AI towards immense power and what it could do with that power. How might AI be trained to show or mimic human behavior? The answer turns out to be a wake-up call that all of us can do something about right now.