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

friends at last our time has come evil vegetables are taking over the world and the only way to defeat them is to eat them.

So let's crunch every carrot, bite every broccoli and trounce every tomato.

Um, isn't a tomato of fruit?

Stick a fork in it, wise guy.

It's time to conquer the veg, one bite, one crunch and one lunch at a time.

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