Sean Welsh

Sean Welsh is co-author of An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI and author of Ethics and Security Automata. He works as a digital transformation consultant in Brisbane.

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‘Superintelligence,’ Ten Years On

AI catastrophe is easy to imagine, but a lot has to go consistently and infallibly wrong for the doom theory to pan out.

Sean Welsh

2 Jul 2024 · 12 min read

An AI generated image of a man staring face to face with a robot.

ChatGPT’s Moral Compass

We hear much talk of “aligning AI with human values” but relatively little delineation of what these values are.

Sean Welsh

20 May 2024 · 15 min read

Getting Better All the Time

Hannah Ritchie’s new book offers reasons to be cheerful about the present and the future.

Sean Welsh

15 Feb 2024 · 12 min read

To Accelerate or Decelerate AI: That is the Question

Explaining the “accel/decel” split at the heart of the OpenAI power struggle.

Sean Welsh / Michael Timothy Bennett

18 Dec 2023 · 13 min read

What Lies Beneath

In ‘The Hidden Spring,’ psychoanalyst Mark Solms offers a theory of consciousness and the causal mechanisms from which it arises.

Sean Welsh

23 Jun 2023 · 14 min read

ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions

Professionals must learn to work with the machines or they will be replaced by them.

Sean Welsh

26 Jan 2023 · 12 min read

Will AI Spell the End of Capitalism?

In 2018, the Washington Post published an opinion piece by Feng Xiang entitled “AI Will Spell the End of Capitalism.” Professor Feng teaches law at Tsinghua University and is one of China’s most prominent legal scholars. The core of his argument is set forth in the opening paragraphs: If

Michael Timothy Bennett / Sean Welsh

16 Jan 2022 · 9 min read

Troll Exposure

Hell hath no fury like a trolled daughter’s father: When multiple media houses and friends of friends from far overseas approach me and my family over a devastating, soul-destroying, career-ending lie, then the time of any person to act has arrived. It’s time to protect your daughter and

Sean Welsh

8 Dec 2021 · 10 min read

Why Australia Opted for AUKUS

While Reuters reports that the French had ample warning the project was in trouble, the AUKUS announcement and the cancellation of the submarine contract nevertheless took them by surprise.

Sean Welsh

2 Oct 2021 · 11 min read