Part Two: Minds and Machines / Christopher Wylie

Deepak Chopra’s Infinite Potential

Infinite Potential Media, LLC

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In Part Two of our series on Artificial Intelligence, we unravel the inner workings of the internet brain, ever-growing in size...and in power. How do we relate to the systems being built around us? What is ethical AI? And how can our data shape and alter our reality? Join me as we peer into the future, that is also our present, with Christopher Wylie, the green-haired, nose-ringed whistle-blower on Cambridge Analytica, as well as quite the philosopher of tech. Chris sounds the alarm...and together we look for signs of how to be humanly conscious in the age of machines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to part two of a two-part series focusing on artificial intelligence.
0:12.0	Do we humans have free will or are we like machines programmable?
0:20.0	The American psychologist, B.F. Skinner, studied how we learn to behave from our environment.
0:35.0	In Skinner's view, we can be trained by participating in dynamic systems that create and feed desire.
0:43.0	The system offers something, sees how we respond, then gives us more of what it seems we want.
0:53.0	A feedback loop of response and reward.
0:57.0	Response and reward.
1:01.0	Response and reward.
1:03.0	And it's no surprise that Silicon Valley loves B.F. Skinner.
1:14.0	Much of the technology we use today reflects his thinking with the purpose of securing our engagement.
1:21.0	What makes us come back for more? What gets the most likes? What do we respond to fastest?
1:27.0	What drives you to hit thumbs up? And so we click. We click away our data, our time, our sanity.
1:37.0	And my gut tells me this is not going to go away anytime soon.
1:43.0	In fact, as my guest today reveals, we are becoming an inextricable part of this dynamic system.
1:51.0	Biological machines plugged into AI platforms.
1:57.0	Algorithms feed us what we want, measure our responses and bring us further into their world.
2:06.0	If you have enough data on people, you can create a version of reality and a version of you and a version of me.
2:16.0	Because information has power, narratives have power, technology has power, AI has power, systems have power.
2:24.0	You are in a system and so we should be talking about that system.
2:31.0	I'm Deepak Chopra and this is Infinite Potential.
2:36.0	Where we explore what makes us conscious beings and why it matters that we are.
2:50.0	At the right page of 24, after a career that already spanned fashion, cyber intelligence and politics, Christopher Wiley started a job that would take him headlong into one of the biggest political scandals.
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