The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the self-driving office edition of Sleep Money, your guide to the Business and Finance News of the Week.

I'm Felix Salmon.

I have Anna Shimansky right here as well, and we have the one and only Meredith we said, welcome.

Thank you.

Hello everybody.

Meredith, you are a professor at NYU

and you've written a book.

I have the book is called Artificial Unintelligence

how computers misunderstand the world.

Meredith was introduced to slate money by Kathy O'Neill who wrote a slightly less technical book

which was along the same lines but this one if you're interested in artificial intelligence.

Meredith knows more or less everything

there is to know about artificial intelligence.

We're going to talk about that.

We are going to talk about cars.

We're going to talk about artificial intelligence and cars and we're also

just going to talk about cars generally because there's some news out from Ford.

They're basically going to stop making cars, which is kind of amazing.

And for anyone who didn't listen to Anna Schmanski's rant about Tesla debt a few weeks ago in the Slate Plus segment, we're going to basically

reprise that because W-Wework has issued debt and we are so here for that. It's going to be fun, but let's start with Meredith.

Your book is an explanation of artificial intelligence, like how we got to where we are and what it is, and also

a skeptical take on it.

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