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podcasts. It was a big week for AI at Google's I.O. conference. From American public media,

this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty-Karino.

Google revealed a slew of new products at its annual developer conference this week,

like its new pixel flip phone. I mean, fold phone. I guess we're calling them

fold phones now. But it was artificial intelligence that stole the show from new search

integrations and updates to its barred chatbot to an automatic translation dubbing service.

Google is clearly going big on AI as it tries to fend off competition from Microsoft and open AI.

It's part of a strategy to be bold and responsible, says James Manica. He's Google's senior

vice president of technology and society. We are trying to be bold, meaning we're trying to focus

on one of the most impactful ways that AI can benefit people, businesses, society. We also

want to take the responsible part pretty seriously, probably because, you know, AI is still an emerging

technology and it is such we need to be very mindful about the risks, the challenges,

the complexity that come with it. Those two ideas, idea being bold and responsible,

while they may sound like they're intention, we actually think we can embrace both of those

and, you know, make productive use of that tension. That's what we're trying to do.

I mean, this is a space where there is such a striking divergence in views. Even

among, I would say leaders in the field, you know, you have people imagining amazing medical

breakthroughs, you know, rising standards of living on one hand and then others literally

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