Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

I've been trying to read books lately about AI to get a firmer grasp on this obviously important topic.

And the best book I've read for both a basic grounding of the history and the state of play of

AI, but also for looking at potential

frameworks for the technology, both ethically and socially, is a human algorithm, how

artificial intelligence is redefining who we are by Flynn Coleman.

We're going to talk to Flynn today.

Please enjoy this great discussion about a topic that I'm still wrapping my head around.

So Flynn, I know that... still wrapping my head around.

So Flynn, I know that this is the most cliche question to ask someone who's written a book, but because, you you know I've read the book and there's obvious passion behind it I'm curious why this topic and why this book is this why is this something that you felt was

important to talk about right now? Yeah I've been working at the intersection of human rights and technology for my entire career.

So constantly thinking about questions like, what does it mean to be human and how are we leveraging technology for the betterment of

society and for the common good.

And as you just mentioned and of course also working in this space, we are at a crossroads. We don't exactly know of course what the future

holds but in terms of technology and specifically artificial intelligence what's

happening is we've always had new technology and tools, but we've often had more time to

assimilate to these new tools and technologies, and now it's advancing so rapidly that human beings aren't going to get that much time to

assimilate.

So we really have a lot of questions we need to be thinking about and conversations we need

to be having on a societal level if we don't want this to get away from us

and if we want to make decisions that are not just about building better and smarter tools,

but how we can use them to make the world a better place.

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