192. Karsten Roscher & The Need For Safe AI (Interview)

(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!You can check out the information about the course Karsten mentioned for safety & machine learning by clicking HERE. Enjoyed listening to Karsten? Want to hear more from him? Checkout his links below:Karsten’s LinkedInSafe Intelligence Blog Become a founding reader of our newsletter: http://read.thenextbyte.com/ As always, you can find these and other interesting & impactful engineering articles on Wevolver.com.