alan mackworth

Can Canada constrain AI?

Dr. Alan Mackworth — professor emeritus with UBC Computer Science — has been studying AI since the 1970s. He’s served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and held a Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence from 2001 to 2014. In this conversation, Dr. Mackworth discusses the challenges of regulating artificial intelligence, if age-based bans on AI make sense, and how chatbots are trained to flag harmful actors.

Read the interview in UBC Science's Focus Magazine.