AI Is Not What You Think

In The Thick

Futuro Media

News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we’re unpacking AI. Julio is joined by Karen Hao, contributing writer for The Atlantic focusing on AI, to talk about the human impact of the rapidly evolving technology and what it means to decolonize AI.

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Rebecca Tan and Regine Cabato report on the “digital sweatshops” across the Global South, where workers have to sort and label data for AI models, in this article for the Washington Post.
“Many creative types are wrestling with the credit conundrum and questions around copyright when it comes to making use of content that has been trained on original illustrations, graphics, and written material,” writes Ko Bragg, in this article for The Markup.
Prosecutors from across the US are asking lawmakers to create a commission to study the impacts of AI on child exploitation, reports Meg Kinnard for The Associated Press.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey dear listener, a quick favor.
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0:34.4	From futuro media and PRX, it's in the thick.
0:37.7	A podcast about politics, race and culture.
0:40.3	I'm Julio Riccalo-Varila and today on the show, we are unpacking artificial intelligence
0:46.7	also known as AI or I.
0:50.5	I'm sorry, I'm just like the Spanish, it means as I and it's impact.
0:54.5	Yeah, exactly.
0:55.5	Look, my guest is already revealing himself and it's impact in our society.
0:59.5	And we do have a very special guest joining me who's already laughing, so I'm already
1:02.7	loving it.
1:03.7	All the way from Hong Kong is Karen Howe, contributing writer at the Atlantic.
1:08.6	Karen, you were laughing at my intro, so welcome to the show and let I'm so excited
1:13.7	that you're here now.
1:14.7	Thank you so much for having me, Julio.
1:16.6	All right, so let's jump right in, so Karen, you've been covering AI and tech for a while
1:23.0	and you're currently writing a book about AI.
1:25.6	We've all been hearing a lot about AI, whether it be, you know, whether it's AI-generated
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