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Welcome to Silic Consciousness, the DSR Network podcast focusing on the Artificial Intelligence Revolution,

Politics and Policy. See.

your host David Rothkof and this week as every week we're going to talk about issues that are associated with the rise of AI, some of the complications, some of the

opportunities and we are extremely fortunate this week to be joined by Dr. Micah Altman.

He is a social and information scientist at MIT Center for Research and

Equitable and open scholarship. His research focuses on the

intersections of information technology, privacy, and politics as well as the dissemination, preservation, and governance of scientific knowledge.

Welcome.

Thanks for inviting me today, David. How are you doing?

Very good.

Although I live in Washington, so you know that's a big qualifier.

I do we have done some work in that area, but I'll get to that later.

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