Special Edition: How AI Is Changing Jobs, Daily Life & What’s Coming
The NewsWorthy
Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 24 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Today we’re taking stock of the overall state of artificial intelligence in 2025 – from the latest potential to the biggest risks, including which jobs may be first to go. I’m speaking with a computer scientist and AI researcher about how AI is already being used in your daily life and what to watch for next as this technology evolves fast.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Saturday, May 24th, and today we're taking stock of the overall state of artificial intelligence in 2025, |
| 0:06.8 | from the latest potential, including machines that could one day reach human-level intelligence, |
| 0:11.5 | to some of the biggest risks, like major scams or which jobs may be first to go. |
| 0:16.9 | Computer scientist Kantara Toyama is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. |
| 0:22.2 | He's a fellow at MIT's Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and the author of Geek Heresy, |
| 0:26.8 | rescuing social change from the cult of technology. |
| 0:29.5 | Today, he's giving us a big picture status update on AI, |
| 0:32.8 | how it's being used in your daily life, even without you realizing it, |
| 0:36.4 | and what to watch for next as this tech |
| 0:38.3 | evolves fast. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome, welcome to the Newsworthy Special Edition Saturday when we sit down with a different |
| 0:46.1 | expert or celebrity every Saturday to talk about something in the news. |
| 0:49.5 | Don't forget to tune in every Monday through Friday for our regular episodes where we provide |
| 0:53.5 | all the day's news in 10 minutes. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm Erica Mandy. It's now time for today's special edition Saturday. |
| 1:02.7 | Cantero Toyama, thank you so much for joining us here on The Newsworthy. |
| 1:06.1 | Absolutely. I'm very glad to be here. Thanks for inviting me. |
| 1:09.0 | What would you say your overall take is on the status of AI right now in 2025? |
| 1:15.4 | I think, you know, we have crossed a significant threshold in terms of artificially intelligent creations. |
| 1:22.6 | We haven't quite gone to the point of what people call artificial general intelligence, which is a machine |
| 1:28.1 | intelligence that is as good as human in most ways and probably much better in many other |
| 1:33.0 | ways, in that today's chatbots aren't great at reasoning, aren't great at logical reasoning, |
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