#011 - Izabella Kaminska - The AI Takeover: Media, Money, and the New World Order
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
Izabella is the Senior Finance Editor at Politico and the founder editor of The Blind Spot.
In this episode, we discuss the rapid advancement of AI, including how tools like ChatGPT are transforming journalism, the ethics of AI, its role in uncovering hidden information, and whether full transparency will lead to societal improvements or chaos. We also discuss economic stagnation, the collapse of the middle class, and the impact of inflation on daily life. We also get into the over-regulation in Europe, how it's falling behind in technological innovation, and the parallels between modern challenges and historical examples of power structures and corruption.
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| 0:00.0 | I think there is a real, something has changed. In the last four weeks, since the summer, basically, I think chat GPD has suddenly become very useful. |
| 0:12.0 | And if you know and use it smartly, you can make really big strides in what you're doing. And it can help condense maybe two weeks' worth of research into a few days, |
| 0:27.0 | which is really helpful. |
| 0:28.3 | So you think the AI is helping them to do deeper research and investigative journalism |
| 0:32.6 | because they will have said something on the internet somewhere at some point they've forgotten about? |
| 0:36.5 | So suddenly you're much more effective. |
| 0:38.1 | And so those days of being able to bury news in some ways disappear |
| 0:42.0 | because also by definition I think AI can't contradict itself. |
| 0:47.2 | It's like Hal 9,000. |
| 0:48.6 | So it has to like, you know, it will by extrapol, realize what has happened in the dark hold. |
| 0:55.8 | Inevitably, people are going to, like, stumble across big, dark secrets. |
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