The Munk Debate on Artificial Intelligence

The Munk Debate on Artificial Intelligence 

Thursday, June 22, 2023
7:00 PM ET to 8:30 PM 
Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto, Canada.
 
Resolution: be it resolved, AI research and development poses an existential threat. 

Arguing for the resolution is Yoshua Bengio, recognized worldwide as one of the leading experts in artificial intelligence. His pioneering work in deep learning earned him the 2018 Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing,” with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.  He will be joined by Max Tegmark,  renowned cosmologist and global leader in machine learning research. He is the president of the Future of Life Institute, M.I.T. professor, and spearheaded with Elon Musk the recent letter by 1000+ scientists calling for a moratorium of AI large language learning models like ChatGPT.  

Arguing against the motion is Yann LeCun, an acclaimed computer scientist of mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is a Professor of Mathematical Sciences at N.Y.U. and Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta. In 2018, Professor LeCun won the Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Computing.” He will be joined by Melanie Mitchell, Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, where she focuses on conceptual abstraction, analogy-making, and visual recognition in AI systems. She is the bestselling author of Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. Melanie will be arguing alongside Yann LeCun against the debate resolution.

For more information visit munkdebates.com/debates/artificial-intelligence.