Ask Not What Your Robots Can Do For You

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The Atlantic

News, Society & Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 4 August 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Our increasingly smart machines aren’t just changing the workforce, they’re changing us. Already, algorithms are directing human activity in all sorts of ways, from choosing what news people see to highlighting new gigs for workers in the gig economy. What will human life look like as machine learning overtakes more aspects of our society? Alexis Madrigal, who covers technology for The Atlantic, shares what he’s learned from his reporting on the past, present, and future of automation with our Radio Atlantic co-hosts, Jeffrey Goldberg (editor-in-chief), Alex Wagner (contributing editor and CBS anchor), and Matt Thompson (executive editor). For links and other show notes, go here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	The other day, a few steps away from the Atlantic's office, a security guard fell into a fountain and
0:34.0	drowned. But folks got over it pretty fast. The security guard was a robot
0:39.7	and the company that it came from quickly promised to replace it free of charge.
0:44.4	Smart machines, like Steve the robot security guard, are officially everywhere.
0:49.2	How are they changing us?
0:51.2	How will we change in response?
0:54.5	This is Radio Atlantic. Hi folks I'm Matt Thompson, executive editor of The Atlantic and I'm all alone in my studio here in DC and in New York.
1:16.0	It's Jeffrey Goldberg. I'm the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic.
1:19.0	Taking a big bite out of the Big Apple and I'm Alex Wagner a contributing editor at the Atlantic.
1:24.3	A lot of editors. A lot of editors but joining us in our fourth chair this week
1:28.8	somewhere in the United States. Yes this this is Alexis Madrigal.
1:33.0	I'm a staff writer for the Atlantic and joining you from Denver, Colorado in my father-in-law study.
1:38.3	Awesome.
1:39.3	The Atlantic, by the way, global.
1:41.9	I mean, national, but really global also.
1:44.6	Truly global, we're all over the place.
1:46.4	All right, folks, anyone take a run at this win.
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