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EPISODE · Dec 31, 2023 · 30 MIN

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

from What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

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 NYUOriginally aired May 12th, 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 NYUOriginally aired May 12th, 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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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...

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