Kara Swisher Hosts Fierce Debate On Future Of AI With Google VP, AI Ethicist

To celebrate its fifth anniversary, Noema Magazine brought together renowned AI experts Blaise Agüera y Arcas and Prof. Shannon Vallor to discuss whether AI makes us more or less human in a conversation moderated by journalist Kara Swisher. The debate went deep into the philosophical ramifications of AI as an emerging transformative technology, as well as our general understanding of intelligence, with a few zingers thrown in for good measure. Agüera y Arcas is a VP/Fellow, CTO of Technology & Society and founder of the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google. Vallor is the ​​Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at The University of Edinburgh. Swisher is a New York Times bestselling author, host of the “On with Kara Swisher” & “Pivot” podcasts and editor-at-large at New York Magazine. Noema is a longform journalism magazine exploring fresh ideas to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Follow Noema: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/noemamagazine TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@noemamag Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/noemamag/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/noemamag.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/noemamag X: https://twitter.com/NoemaMag Threads: https://www.threads.net/@noemamag