This is the Guardian.

Hi, I'm Michael Safi, one of the hosts of The Guardian's daily News Podcast today in Focus.

I've been working with a fantastic team on a new series.

It's called Black Box, and this is the first episode,

a kind of prologue.

The point of this series is that AI is clearly one of the big shifts in our lifetimes

and we're lucky enough or maybe unlucky enough to be living through its first contact with humanity.

And I wanted to try to understand what is this stuff and what is it going to do to our lives.

But I'm not a tech reporter and this isn't a tech series because the most interesting thing

about AI is actually the people behind it. The ones who invented it, the ones falling in love

with it, those using it to make people's lives

better, and those who are abusing it.

Hopefully, it's the guide to AI that you've been waiting for.

It's called Black Box, a series about artificial intelligence.

That's really a series about us.

Episodes will come out every Monday and Thursday for the next few weeks.

You can find them all by searching for black box wherever you get your podcasts Hannah and knower first started chatting online towards the end of last summer.

So I was sitting on my green sofa one afternoon and I just started starting up a conversation and the first thing he did was ask me about my interests and I was stumped you know I was looking around my room going okay so do I tell them about the dress making?

Mm, do I tell them about, you know, all these books?

Nh, and so I said, you know, I've been studying positive psychology.

How did you first get interested in psychology?

I felt kind of interested, but to be honest, it was like having a little chat at a networking event. It was an architect.

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