Agentic AI and our AI Future with Nell Watson

This episode of Enzai's AI Governance Podcast features Nell Watson.Nell is a machine intelligence researcher, engineer, philosopher, and author of Taming the Machine: Ethically Harness the Power of AI. She leads several prominent efforts in the responsible AI space, chairs IEEE’s ECPAIS Transparency Experts Focus Group and has previously advised Apple.

In an episode recorded at Enzai’s office in Belfast, Nell joined Var Shankar to discuss:

- how scaffolding will incrementally help today’s foundational AI models improve significantly

- why agentic AI will require new ways of thinking about AI governance

- how AI labs should think about instilling morals into foundational models

- the implications of personal AI assistants becoming ubiquitous and understanding us intimately; and

- why organizations and policymakers should prepare for rapid change.