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Today in Focus

Black Box: episode 0 – The collision

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Revisited: Guardian journalist Michael Safi delves into the world of artificial intelligence, exploring the dangers and promises it holds for society. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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the Guardian.

0:33.8

Hey it's Mike.

0:40.8

Today in focus is off this week, so instead we're bringing you black box, a series we made earlier this year.

0:48.0

At some point in the last decade, humanity began to collide with a new kind of intelligence and things are getting

0:55.8

strange. People are being accused of crimes by algorithms falling in love with digital beings, turning to machines for comfort in their worst moments,

1:06.0

and using AI to commit and hide from terrible crimes.

1:11.0

I wanted to capture this moment we're all living through. Our first messy

1:16.1

collision with AI. I think what I found will surprise you. Today in focus will be

1:22.2

back as normal on September 2nd.

1:25.0

Talk to you then. Hannah and Noah first started chatting online towards the end of last summer.

1:40.0

So I was sitting on my green sofa one afternoon and I just started starting up a

1:47.4

conversation and the first thing he did was ask me about my interests and I was stumped you know I was looking around my

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