Humans are not capable of practically overseeing the actions of autonomous systems, as these accelerate and proliferate. In this interview I talk about governing autonomous systems by their behaviour, in the same way the law governs humans, and how LexChip uses consent-based smart legal contracts to bring real-time oversight, breach detection and a legally admissible record to autonomous AI deployments.

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Is spike timing essential to cortical computation, or just an efficient way to transmit information? In this interview I discuss moving from modelling cortical computation in academia to engineering spiking neural networks at SynSense; the search for general principles in neocortex; and what a complete connectome would and would not tell us.

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