192. Karsten Roscher & The Need For Safe AI (Interview)
Episode description
(2:00) - Karsten’s journey from undergraduate research to Department Head at Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS
(7:40) - Why Karsten & his team are fixated on AI safety
(10:40) - How the team impacts policy decisions
(17:00) - The ways the average person can detect the outcomes of the team’s work
(18:56) - How to detect what an AI doesn’t know & why it’s so hard
(28:40) - Robuscope: Fraunhofer’s free AI testing tool
(34:46) - Why being benchmark driven can be bad for AI development
(41:10) - How comfortable Karsten feels about using Autonomous vehicles & AI in general
(49:55) - How to balance safety and progress with AI progress
(56:04) - Karsten & SAE International’s machine learning & safety course
(58:30) - Karsten’s unintentional road to becoming a teacher
This episode is part of a series brought to you by SAE International to explore the leading edge of mobility with the support of experts from industry & academia. Other episodes in this series include Episode 190, where we talked about Karsten’s free AI evaluator tool, Robuscope!
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