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EPISODE · Dec 17, 2025 · 54 MIN

AI and the cost to human life — with Karen Hao

from The Minefield · host Australian Broadcasting Corporation

AI is sometimes portrayed in utopian terms as the essential technological innovation. At other times, it's described as representing an existential threat to human life, a technological creation that will inevitably lay waste to its creator. Regardless of how we view it, could the cost of AI extend far beyond economics?

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