What is Your Face Worth?
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🗓️ 23 September 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Felix Salmon, Emily Peck, and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by Kashmir Hill to talk about her new book, Your Face Belongs to Us. They dig into the way facial recognition technology is used in unexpected (and sometimes creepy) ways. They also talk about the A.I. revolution and Rupert Murdoch’s “exit” from the Fox empire.
In the Plus segment: Kashmir talks about tracking her husband.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! Welcome to Slate Money, your guide to the business and finance news of the week. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm Felix Amalif Axios with Spires of Slate and New York Times and places like that. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello! |
| 0:25.0 | I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:29.0 | And very excitingly, we are here with the one and only Kashmir Hill of the New York Times. |
| 0:35.5 | Kashmir, welcome. |
| 0:37.0 | Hi, thank you. Good to be here. |
| 0:40.0 | Kashmir is the greatest technology journalist of her generation. |
| 0:44.5 | She's a brilliant, wonderful and incredibly funny and just perfect person. |
| 0:51.5 | In all respects, she has written a book. What is the name of the book? |
| 0:55.0 | Your face belongs to us. |
| 0:57.0 | Because it's a nonfiction book, there's always a colon and then a long subtitle. |
| 1:02.0 | Only Walt Isaacson doesn't do that. |
| 1:05.0 | If your name isn't Walt Isaacson, you need a subtitle. |
| 1:08.0 | So what's the subtitle? |
| 1:09.0 | Your face belongs to us. |
| 1:10.0 | A secretive start-ups quest to end privacy as we know it. |
| 1:14.0 | We are going to talk about that secretive start-up. It's called Clearview AI. |
| 1:18.0 | And we're going to talk about face recognition more generally. |
| 1:20.0 | And we're going to talk about AI more generally. |
| 1:22.0 | And we're going to talk about Rupert Murdock. |
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