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Shivon Zilis

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  1. Milken Institute54 min

    AI: Reshaping the World As We Know It

    Shivon Zilis, Paul Blase, Mark Gorenberg, Rohit Prasad, Lior Ron, Francesca Rossi

    Five industry leaders from sectors including Amazon, Uber, IBM, and venture capital convened to analyze the next decade of artificial intelligence, emphasizing a consensus that AI will transition from experimental technology to invisible infrastructure. While all panelists expressed optimism about the technology's potential to solve immediate global challenges like traffic fatalities and pandemics, they highlighted critical hurdles regarding explainability, value alignment, and the shifting paradigm from individual vehicle ownership to autonomous services. The discussion concluded that future success relies on establishing trust through statistical safety and collaborative governance rather than eliminating deep learning's "black box" nature, ultimately predicting a symbiotic future where human creativity complements machine intelligence.

  2. Milken Institute58 min

    Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe?

    Alexandra Suich, Guruduth Banavar, Michael Ferro, Stuart Russell, David M. Siegel, Shivon Zilis

    A panel of experts frames the current AI revolution as being in its early stages, emphasizing the shift from sci-fi fantasies of sentient robots to practical "narrow AI" that augments human intelligence across diverse sectors like healthcare, agriculture, and transportation. While highlighting transformative benefits such as expanded medical diagnostics and automated labor, the discussion underscores immediate risks including white-collar job displacement, the weaponization of autonomous systems, and the complex ethical challenge of encoding human values into machine decision-making. Looking toward the next decade, the consensus predicts universal cognitive assistants and significant advancements in personalized medicine and road safety, contingent on establishing new legal and safety frameworks to manage the societal impacts of this widespread automation.