“A lot of people here are worried about the future of AI. It’s been a massive change-maker and will continue to be one,” Tony told the audience. But, as he went on to explain, the integrity of AI poses a danger to itself through flawed recursive learning patterns - similar to how the game of Broken Telephone distorts the sender’s original message. Tony concluded that this flaw in how AI learns, gives us - the humans who use AI - an opportunity to keep it on track by being good digital citizens.

Tony would love to organize a TEDx event at TYS in the future so other students can have the same opportunity he did. “Two of York’s strengths are debate and public speaking and I know a lot of my friends would love to participate,” he says.