
Just another lunch chat at the Khan lab school. "If we eliminate all our bias and ego, I mean, I have some ego!" another female student replies, chuckling. "Why can't you have an AI that is, like, completely peaceful and has no ego?" Khan asks the group, adding, "Do you think intelligence and ego is correlated?" Yet it's compelling, engaging - and genuinely different. The discussion is quintessential Silicon Valley: self-referential veering toward self-important. And this could make 10 times worse decisions!" "If it's a human brain, sometimes I don't listen when people tell me to do things and sometimes I make bad decisions. "How do you know that it will listen to you?" a female student asks. They debate the ethics and delve deep into the anxieties of artificial intelligence. "How would you know something can think the same as a human being?" Khan asks. "What is artificial intelligence?" he asks. The seminar topic when I visited? The prospects and perils of artificial intelligence. He's sitting on a picnic table with a small group of seventh- and eighth-graders, who are nibbling on their lunches. "We did self-driving cars, virtual reality we talked about life extension, and robots."

Dr."So the last couple of seminars we've been talking about technologies that will potentially change the world," the 39-year-old Louisiana native tells the students.

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