#1281 Francesca Rossi: The Benefits and Risks of AI
RECORDED ON APRIL 8th 2026.
Dr. Francesca Rossi is an IBM fellow and the IBM AI Ethics Global Leader. She works at the T.J. Watson IBM Research Lab, New York. Her research interests focus on artificial intelligence, specifically they include constraint reasoning, preferences, multi-agent systems, computational social choice, collective decision making, and AI value alignment. She is also interested in ethical issues in the development and behavior of AI systems.
In this episode, we talk about AI ethics. We discuss the benefits and risks of AI, and how we can mitigate the risks. We talk about how the principles that should undergird AI are developed. Finally, we discuss what a Good AI Society would be like, and the future of AI.
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Intro
What is AI ethics?
The benefits we can get from AI
The risks of AI, and how to mitigate them
Which principles should undergird the development and adoption of AI?
What would be a Good AI Society?
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Follow Dr. Rossi’s work:
IBM page: https://tinyurl.com/2trn5vxw
University of Cambridge page: https://tinyurl.com/bdf978e7
PhilPeople profile: https://tinyurl.com/2n8jtfr8