A.I. Doesn’t Run the Internet; Exploited Humans Do, with Sarah T. Roberts

Factually! with Adam Conover

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4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Technology expert and UCLA professor of information studies Sarah T. Roberts joins Adam to discuss the oversold fantasy of artificial intelligence, the real humans who labor behind the scenes to moderate your social media feeds, and the psychological effects the work takes on them. This episode is sponsored by Acuity (www.acuityscheduling.com/factually), KiwiCo (www.kiwico.com/FACTUALLY), and Parcast - Natural Disasters (www.parcast.com/NATURALDISASTERS). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast. I don't know what to think
0:13.0	I don't know what to say
0:16.0	and the got to be
0:18.0	and that's all right
0:19.0	yeah don't so okay
0:22.0	I don't know.
0:24.0	Hello,
0:25.0	Hello,
0:28.0	Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello,
0:31.0	you know, if you listen to politicians tech titans and crazy uncles around the country
0:35.8	the robots are gonna take over supposedly a revolution in artificial intelligence is
0:42.0	transforming our economy making human workers unnecessary.
0:46.0	Right? I mean, robots don't need health care or minimum wage or job security.
0:50.0	AI doesn't need regular bathroom breaks or even bathrooms at all.
0:55.0	And best of all, AI would never betray you, you Titan of industry, and form one of those pesky unions.
1:01.0	Hey, you can straight up program them to never go on strike.
1:04.5	Wow, the perfect employee, humans are screwed, right?
1:08.6	Well, the truth is, this story of encroaching AI supremacy has been a bit oversold, let's say radically
1:17.3	oversold.
1:18.3	The fact is it is extremely difficult to develop AI that can perform even basic tasks a human can and you know if
1:26.0	you want a worker that doesn't get health care or bathroom breaks you know you can
1:29.1	just not give those to a human worker so as a result it's often cheaper and easier to just
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