Welcome to the Eric Mataxas show with your host Eric Mataxas.

Hey folks, as you know this is the Eric Mataxas show and as you also know whenever you read

one of those websites it always says terms of service have you seen that and I just thought

to myself it's so annoying because it could mean anything nobody reads it and I thought

what a great title that would be for a book but I don't have time to write a whole book

so I thought maybe somebody else would and they did his name is Craig Stan Phil and the

title of the book is Terms of Service Craig welcome to the program.

Thank you Eric.

This is a great title terms of service.

This sounds ominous.

Is this a dystopian novel?

It is an extremely dystopian novel.

It portrays a future that we might be creating where you've got these huge big tech companies

that run everything in your life and of course they're watching everything you do and

the final sort of turn of the screw is they've got these AIs that are constantly watching

over your shoulders and monitoring everything you do and that lets them exert an incredible

level of control over your life.

Okay this I got to tell you you got your PhD in artificial intelligence in 1983 before

I think there was artificial intelligence practically so you are at least an expert on

this subject.

Most of us of course know nothing about artificial intelligence so why does it seem so scary

to you and obviously you put it in the novel terms of service which I hope people get

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