On this week’s podcast, Julia Baker, the global lead on nature at consultancy Mott MacDonald discusses the risks facing junior ecologists in a new age of AI adoption within the environmental profession.
Baker shares her experiences of where the use of AI has benefitted her professional world, how the next generation of ecologists can benefit from it, and the warning signs of what to avoid.
For Baker, safeguards are needed. Young ecologists entering into the profession need to seek out the companies that are putting those safety measures in place.
But her advice comes at a time when the heads of AI companies have called for greater regulation from lawmakers, and AI safety engineers have warned of a potential impending apocalypse.
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