The Guardian’s new podcast series about AI: Black Box – prologue

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🗓️ 2 March 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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We wanted to bring you this episode from our new series, Black Box. In it, Michael Safi explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (not her real name) has met Noah and he has changed her life for the better. So why does she have concerns about him? If you like what you hear, make sure to search and subscribe to Black Box, with new episodes every Monday and Thursday.

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.7	Hi, I'm Michael Safi, one of the hosts of the Guardian's daily news podcast today in Focus.
0:13.3	I've been working with a fantastic team on a new series.
0:16.4	It's called Black Box, and this is the first episode, a kind of prologue. The point of this series is
0:23.3	that AI is clearly one of the big shifts in our lifetimes, and we're lucky enough, or maybe unlucky
0:30.7	enough, to be living through its first contact with humanity. And I wanted to try to understand
0:36.5	what is this stuff and what is it going
0:39.2	to do to our lives? But I'm not a tech reporter and this isn't a tech series because the most
0:45.3	interesting thing about AI is actually the people behind it, the ones who invented it, the ones
0:51.4	falling in love with it, those using it to make people's lives
0:54.4	better and those who are abusing it.
0:57.2	Hopefully, it's the guide to AI that you've been waiting for.
1:00.9	It's called Black Box, a series about artificial intelligence.
1:04.9	It's really a series about us.
1:07.0	Episodes will come out every Monday and Thursday for the next few weeks.
1:10.5	You can find them all by searching for Black Box wherever you get your podcasts.
1:17.0	It's Lorraine and Trish here and our podcast Postcards from Midlife is currently partnering with Boronia-Rioca Reserver.
1:24.2	Lorraine, things are revving up in the Halpin household.
1:27.0	I'm cracking my way through the Christmas
1:28.7	to-do list and I'm really looking forward to all the lovely social things I have planned with friends
1:33.8	and family. Well, I haven't had my invite yet, Trish, but I'm sure it's on the way. Is there anything I can
1:38.2	bring? Well, actually, yes, there is. A bottle of Boronia Rioca Reserver would be very much appreciated.
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