TBD | Who’s Afraid of A.I.?

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Artificial intelligence—as it already exists today—is drawing from huge troves of surveillance data and is rife with the biases built into the algorithm, in service of the huge corporations that develop and maintain the systems. The fight for the future doesn’t look like war with Skynet; it’s happening right now on the lines of the Writer’s Guild strike. Guests: Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, co-founder of the AI Now Institute at NYU If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.9	Over the past few weeks, you might have noticed some very public hand-dringing about artificial
0:49.5	intelligence.
0:50.5	A lot of it, from people who had made AI their life's work.
0:54.8	The so-called Godfather of AI is warning that an end to humanity is a real risk.
1:02.0	And he's just quit his job at Google to warn us.
1:06.0	We need to think really hard now about how we're going to control something that's more
1:11.1	intelligent than us.
1:12.6	That's Jeffrey Hinton, an AI pioneer who's been on a bit of a media tour worrying about
1:17.6	AI since he left Google.
1:20.0	But it's not just him.
1:21.3	There was a public letter from Elon Musk and others calling for a pause in AI development.
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