Dr Jade Leung works with artificial intelligence (AI) and is extremely clever, which makes thinking of questions to ask her a formidable undertaking.
The 28-year-old Kiwi lives in San Francisco and is the governance lead at OpenAI, a research and deployment company focused on building advanced AI models.
A Rhodes Scholar with a doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford, she features in Prime’s new show Brave New Zealand World, a series looking at the greatest risks to humanity, including a future where artificial intelligence could rule the planet – and us.
Leung talks to Felicity Monk about where AI is headed, what we can do to ensure it’s helpful – and not destructive – to humanity in the future and the brain-boggling complexities of her job. ...