How is science fiction like a cultural research and development lab?

Will we someday have AI agents that live inside robot bodies,

and will we be liable if they commit murder?

What happens when reality itself is no longer verifiable?

How do we create AI agents that guide us towards survival and self-actualization, not just

profit or distraction? And what is the young ladies illustrated primer?

This week we talk with researcher Bethany Maples about science fiction

and how it might prepare us to wrestle with the deepest human questions about AI and identity

and the future of humanity.

Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman.

I'm a neuroscientist and author at Stanford,

and in these episodes, we sailed deeply into our three-pound universe

to understand the hidden forces that shape our lives.

Thank you. that shape our lives. This is an I-Heart podcast.

Are there any pictures of you online?

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

I'm Dexter Thomas, host a Kill Switch, a podcast about how living in the future is affecting us right now.

Police, they are trusting the software with this magical ability to lead them to the right suspect.

In this episode, we dive into how cops are using AI and facial recognition,

and sometimes getting it wrong and putting innocent people behind bars.

So if your accuser is this algorithm, but you're not even being told that it was used, let alone given any of the details about how it works.

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