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The possibilities for AI are vast.

We've spent so much of this year reading and learning about them and trying AI tools

for ourselves.

AI Ethics Researcher Sasha Lutioni doesn't want us to forget AI's impacts on people and

the planet.

In her 2023 talk from Ted Women, she talks through how to build a moral and sustainable

future with AI after the break.

So I've been an AI researcher for over a decade and a couple of months ago, I got the weirdest

email of my career.

A random stranger wrote to me saying that my work in AI is going to end humanity.

Now I get it, AI is so hot right now.

It's in the headlines pretty much every day sometimes because it's really cool things

like discovering new molecules for medicine or that dope pope in the white puffer

coat.

But other times the headlines have been really dark like that chatbot telling that guy

that he should divorce his wife or that AI meal planner app proposing a crowd-pleasing

recipe featuring chlorine gas.

And in the background we've heard a lot of talk about Doomsday scenarios, existential

risk and the singularity with letters being written and events being organized to make

sure that doesn't happen.

Now I'm a researcher who studies AI's impacts on society.

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