The subject of this interview with Peter Scott, a well-know AI expert, futurist and founder of AI and You , is the impact on the Covid-19 pandemic on the greatly accelerated pace of change in most domains of human activity, in particular in Artificial Intelligence. The pandemic has shown how unprepared the world is to even a relatively minor event as this one, in comparison with truly existential risks that we may have to face, such as the arrival of Immature Superintelligence by the end of this decade. Therefore, in some way, this pandemic has been a kind of a vaccine for the whole civilisation to get better prepared for much worse events that may occur concurrently.
‘The accelerated pace of Artificial Intelligence in the Post-pandemic World’