Artificial Intelligence Safety: An Interview with Stanford Research Fellow Duncan Eddy

From Satellite Systems to AI: Practical Experience Lays the Foundation for Safety Research   Emmi: Reflect on your background and your work with Earth observing satellite systems. Do you feel that this work prepared you to work in artificial intelligence?Duncan: It gave me a very good grounding in practical, applied, and physical problems, which I think AI benefits from.Lots of people are making what I would call useless things in AI. Not to be blunt about it, but we don’t need more chatbots. We need things that solve real and meaningful problems that are incredibly hard, and that is something that working on satellites very much showed — it’s possible. […]