Elena Yunusov is a Deep Tech Marketing and Strategy Leader with a focus on artificial intelligence. Elena has been in AI before ChatGPT, leading Marketing at Borealis AI, an AI research institute founded by RBC. She was nominated for the RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards for her work with her agency, Communicable Inc., and was named among ‘Top Women in Canadian Tech’ by BetaKit.

Elena and I discuss AI, why it is both exciting and a little scary and what we can do to improve AI alignment and safety.

Guest: Elena Yunusov https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenayunusov/

Host: Tim Hampton https://www.linkedin.com/in/thetimhampton

Music: "Breaking Point" by Nihilore | Creative Commons [Attribution, NonCommercial]

Humanity is not automatic.

Elena mentioned the following books in this episode:

Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal et al

Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence by Ajay Agrawal et al

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell et al

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian et al

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values by Brian Christian