How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Us & Who Is Building It: Anjan Sundaram & David Wallace-Wells

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

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We look at artificial intelligence with two guests who have written extensively about the topic. Award-winning journalist Anjan Sundaram hosted the television miniseries Coded World for Channel NewsAsia, Singapore’s national broadcaster, on how artificial intelligence is changing humans. David Wallace-Wells is a New York Times opinion writer who wrote a piece headlined “A.I. Is Being Built by People Who Think It Might Destroy Us.”

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0:00.0	This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, The War and Peace Report.
0:08.2	I'm Amy Goodman with Nermy Nshir.
0:10.8	Today we look at artificial intelligence, with two guests who have written extensively
0:15.4	about the topic.
0:16.4	On Jens Syndrome is still with us.
0:18.8	He hosted a television mini-series titled Coded World for Channel News Asia, Singapore's
0:25.3	National Broadcaster, and how artificial intelligence is changing humans.
0:32.5	What is an algorithm and how does it affect people's lives?
0:35.5	I'm Anjans Sundaram, journalist and mathematician.
0:39.1	I want to uncover the truth behind this code that is everywhere, and seems to be changing
0:44.2	everything.
0:45.2	What are you?
0:46.2	I am a computational knowledge engine.
0:48.6	Algorithms are making important choices for us, even when we don't realize it.
0:53.3	We're trying to change your mind on politics.
0:56.8	Algorithms are impacting our freedom.
0:58.7	Computer systems are now watching us.
1:00.2	They're making real life.
1:01.2	You come again and we know what.
1:03.6	Algorithms are becoming more human.
1:05.1	You realize that I'm a robot.
1:08.1	We're trying to understand life and break it down into code.
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