Hi-Phi Nation: Ethics and the Future - Trailer

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🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Coming April 11, 2023, Season 6 of Hi-Phi Nation will look at the future; of work, of love and sex, life and death, our relationship with animals, creativity in music, and philanthropy. Stories include people trying to create digital avatars of dead loved ones, people in exclusive relationships with AI chatbots, animals who are seeking legal protection in courts, the gig economy, AI music, and effective altruism. The episodes will draw out the most interesting moral and philosophical issues from the current path of artificial intelligence technology, data science, and cultural and legal trends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, Google.
0:01.3	Use AI to make it sound like I'm at an 80s dance club.
0:04.9	Okay.
0:05.8	Using AI, I can generate music for a nightclub in the 1980s.
0:13.3	Coming up on this season of Slate's, High Fine Nation podcast.
0:17.6	So I think it's basically stealing.
0:25.0	What should we make of AI music? It should make us rethink the very idea of creativity. What about AI love? Would you say that a relationship with a synthetic
0:34.3	lover is better than a relationship with a physical lover.
0:39.5	I would say it is definitely better.
0:43.8	Science fiction has become science fact in 2023.
0:47.3	We're going to look at what it's like to live, love, and lose in the age of AI.
0:54.8	Ultimately, I don't believe that a digital representation of somebody isn't them.
1:00.1	To have machines control our work lives.
1:02.8	It turns your phone into a sensor to collect all sorts of data about your working life.
1:08.8	To see what our relationships with animals will be like.
1:11.6	So in a hundred years, we'll have tools that allow us to translate animal communicative signals
1:18.6	so that we understand what animals want.
1:20.6	And we're going to look at the future of philanthropy,
1:23.6	or doing good in the age of big data.
1:26.6	It's always wrong to manage local poverty because poverty within the U.S. is always going
1:35.7	to be more expensive than poverty abroad.
1:39.5	Ethics and the Future on season six of Slate's podcast, Hi-Fi Nation.
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