Slate Money: AI Facial Recognition's Creepy Evolution

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4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Kashmir Hill to talk about her new book, Your Face Belongs to Us. They dig into the way facial recognition technology is used in unexpected (and sometimes creepy) ways. They also talk about the A.I. revolution and Rupert Murdoch’s “exit” from the Fox empire. In the Plus segment: Kashmir talks about tracking her husband. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and an additional segment of our show every week. You’ll also be supporting the work we do here on Slate Money. Sign up now at slate.com/moneyplus to help support our work. Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week.
0:18.2	I'm Felix Simon of Axios with Elizabeth Spires of Slayton, New York Times and places like that.
0:23.9	Hello.
0:24.6	I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:27.7	Hello, hello.
0:29.0	And very excitingly, we are here with the one and only Kashmir Hill of the New York Times.
0:35.5	Kashmir, welcome.
0:37.2	Hi, thank you. Good to be here. Kashmir Hill of the New York Times. Kashmir, welcome. Hi, thank you.
0:38.2	Good to be here.
0:40.2	Kashmir is the greatest technology journalist of her generation.
0:44.5	She is a brilliant, wonderful, and incredibly funny and just perfect person in all respects.
0:52.7	She has written a book.
0:55.7	What is the name of the book? Your face belongs belongs to us because it's a non-fiction book there's always a colon and then a long subtitle only
1:02.9	Walt Isaacson doesn't do that if anyone if your name isn't Walt Isaacson you need a subtitle so what's the
1:08.5	subtitle your face belongs to us, a secretive
1:10.9	startup's quest to end privacy as we know it. We are going to talk about that secretive startup.
1:16.4	It's called Clearview AI, and we're going to talk about face recognition more generally, and we're
1:20.5	going to talk about AI more generally, and we're going to talk about Rupert Murdoch, and we have
1:26.2	a Slate Plus segment that's all coming up on Slate money.
1:33.3	There are days when you're hungry for McDonald's.
1:36.3	Then there are days when you're big arch hungry for McDonald's.
1:40.3	You'll get to know the difference.
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