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Who’s Afraid of A.I.? | 2023 In Review

Who’s Afraid of A.I.? | 2023 In Review

Real harm from A.I. doesn’t have to look like Skynet—it’s already happening.

What Next | Daily News and Analysis · Slate Podcasts

December 31, 202330m 52s

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Show Notes

While the What Next: TBD team spends some time with their families during the holidays, we revisit some of 2023’s biggest, strangest, and best stories. Regularly scheduled programming resumes in January.


Artificial intelligence—as it already exists today—is drawing from huge troves of surveillance data and is rife with the biases built into the algorithm, in service of the huge corporations that develop and maintain the systems. The fight for the future doesn’t look like war with Skynet; it’s happening right now on the lines of the Writer’s Guild strike. 


Guests: 

Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, co-founder of the AI Now Institute at NYU


Originally aired May 12th, 2023


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