The Age of Artificial Intelligence
Unlimited Hangout with Whitney Webb
Whitney Webb
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Whitney is joined by UH assistant and podcast producer Star to discuss key aspects of the AI "revolution" including its short and long term effects and if it is possible to use AI without succumbing to its negative impacts.
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Originally published 02/01/24.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey and welcome back to Unlimited Hangout. I'm your host, Whitney Webb. The AI revolution has |
| 0:06.9 | become more mainstream than ever and the rise of generative AI as having an obvious and pronounced |
| 0:11.9 | impact on human employment, creativity, socialization, and much more. Often framed as helping and |
| 0:17.7 | assisting humanity into a utopia of enhancement and increased equality. |
| 0:23.1 | The impacts of AI are going far beyond and stand to transform, not just the economy and society, but ourselves. |
| 0:30.2 | AI is being rolled out at breakneck speed across nearly every sector imaginable, along with other emerging technologies, |
| 0:36.3 | creating a surveillance grid that logs and |
| 0:38.2 | analyzes every supply chain, every keystroke, and every transaction. Its proponents say it will |
| 0:44.0 | tackle illicit activity and inefficiency, but is it even possible to harness AI for its |
| 0:49.4 | positive use cases without succumbing to its more negative impacts, especially considering |
| 0:54.1 | that AI is |
| 0:55.0 | largely being programmed and maintained by our Silicon Valley overlords and their partners in the |
| 1:00.3 | military and intelligence communities. Joining me to discuss this and more is Star. I'm limited |
| 1:05.7 | Hangouts podcast producer and assistant who has a lot of interesting perspectives on AI that I |
| 1:10.3 | definitely think |
| 1:10.9 | are worth sharing. So, Hey, Star, how's it going? Hi, good. Thanks. How are you? Oh, you know, |
| 1:17.0 | doing swimmingly here to talk about one of the topics I get asked about the most, and it's, |
| 1:23.2 | obviously, there's a lot happening with it. And as I said just a second ago, pretty much every sector is having some sort of disruption, quote unquote, caused by AI and media. |
| 1:34.7 | The field where we work is also one of these sectors that's, you know, in the news, even mainstream news, especially, you know, is talking a lot about the impacts of AI on, on media, |
| 1:44.6 | but also, you know, it's also affecting alternative media quite a bit, I think, as well. |
| 1:50.1 | So, you know, like I said earlier, a lot of the narratives that were fed about, like, the promise of |
| 1:57.3 | AI that it's going to, you know, it reduced tedious work. People won't have to do |
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