The Use of AI in Psychology – Gracie Green

ACADEMIC TALK
Watch the lecture by Gracie Green below and don’t forget to take a look at the extra resources and have a go at the activity at the end.


The Use of AI in Psychology

Gracie Green

How can studying psychology help us understand more about advances in AI? What are the ethical issues with AI models? Current advances in AI are extremely impressive but its limitations, both technologically and morally, are still very much apparent.

Further reading

Read this article for an introduction to how AI works. This article highlights the issues around AI and intellectual property. Read this and watch this to find out about methods used to prevent AI learning models from plagiarising online artwork.

Click here and here to read about the biases in artificial intelligence.​ This article highlights the issues with AI energy usage.

Read this academic article to learn about how psychoanalysis is useful for understanding AI.

What do you think about the ethics of AI art?

Can AI be understood as similar to a human brain being influenced by different sources, or does it work inherently differently?

Write a few paragraphs explaining your opinion on this issue, backing it up with your understanding of AI science.

Can you think of any solutions for the issues with intellectual property ownership and AI art?

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