How to make sure the whole world benefits from AI
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Martha Lane Fox reflects on her 30 years in tech, including her front row seat in Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, how she remains one of very few high profile women in the industry, and why we need to make sure the whole world shapes the debate on AI.
Chenai Chair, from the Mozilla Foundation, joins us from Zimbabwe to explain the work they are doing to make sure minority languages are included in digital services.
India business correspondent Nikhil Inamdar tells us about his experience seeing an app which is helping people in poor areas claim vital welfare payments. And Spencer Kelly, from our sister programme, Click, tells us what he found out about the future of food in his trip to the markets and laboratories of Singapore.
(Photo: Martha Lane Fox (L) and Shiona McCallum (R), in London)
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| 0:28.0 | From the dot-com boom of the 1990s to a front row seat during Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, |
| 0:35.2 | Martha Lane Fox has seen a lot in her three decades of tech. So what does she |
| 0:40.1 | think is the next big thing? Right now, everybody is more than ever before talking about the |
| 0:45.3 | impact of AI. And I think that whether you love it, you loathe it, whatever you think about, |
| 0:49.5 | it's going to destroy or improve society, you need to think about things carefully, but you can't stop them, right? |
| 0:56.3 | There's no point all of us sitting here go, oh, I was going to destroy the world. |
| 0:59.3 | Well, it's happening. |
| 1:00.9 | We ask if AI is the future, how do we make sure the whole world gets to shape it? |
| 1:07.4 | I'm Shona McCallum, and I'm so pleased to be saying this. |
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