What Next TBD: Who’s Afraid of A.I.? | 2023 In Review

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🗓️ 31 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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While the What Next: TBD team spends some time with their families during the holidays, we revisit some of 2023’s biggest, strangest, and best stories. Regularly scheduled programming resumes in January. Artificial intelligence—as it already exists today—is drawing from huge troves of surveillance data and is rife with the biases built into the algorithm, in service of the huge corporations that develop and maintain the systems. The fight for the future doesn’t look like war with Skynet; it’s happening right now on the lines of the Writer’s Guild strike. Guests: Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, co-founder of the AI Now Institute at NYU Originally aired May 12th, 2023 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:34.4	Hey everyone, Emily Peck here with What Next TBD, closing out 2023. It's been a wild year, folks,
0:41.7	especially for tech. We saw AI finally break through to the mainstream. Crypto star,
0:47.6	or former star, Sam Bankman-Fried was put on trial and convicted. And I mean, so much Elon Musk drama. But now it's the holidays, and TBD is
0:57.2	taking a break from the news to look back at the year. We'll return with new episodes in January.
1:02.3	And in the meantime, here's one of our favorite episodes from 2023. We hope you enjoy.
1:09.5	If there's one thing that defined 2023 in tech, it was the rise of artificial intelligence.
1:15.7	From chat GPT to the rise and fall and rise again of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman,
1:22.1	2023 was the year AI went mainstream.
1:25.7	It was also the year where people began to worry about the existential danger
1:30.2	AI posed. Dumers opined about a hypothetical apocalypse brought on by sentient AI. Meanwhile,
1:37.4	there were real-world harms already happening because of the technology, like innocent Americans
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