Air Date: 6-28-2024

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AI, like all new technologies, won't be all good or all bad. In fact, my favorite understanding of emerging technologies is that they often bring simultaneous utopia and dystopia, though many tend to focus on the benefits while only discovering the drawbacks later.

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: We’re already using AI more than we realize - Vox - Air Date 2-28-24

KP 2: AI is a Lie. - Linus Tech Tips - Air Date 6-13-24

KP 3: What Is an AI Anyway? | Mustafa Suleyman - TED - Air Date 4-22-24

KP 4: How to Limit the Threat of "Killer Robots" and Autonomous Weapons That Are Changing Warfare - Global Dispatches - Air Date 3-13-24

KP 5: How Much AI Regulation Is The Right Amount? - FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast - Air Date 6-13-24

KP 6: How AI causes serious environmental problems (but might also provide solutions) | DW Business - DW News - Air Date 4-29-24

KP 7: Why Are Migrants Becoming AI Test Subjects? With Petra Molnar - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 6-20-24

KP 8: Big Tech AI Is A Lie - Tina Huang - Air Date 4-30-24

(1:07:12) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On the nature of misalignment between AI and human wellbeing

Article: This article is OpenAI training data

DEEPER DIVES

(1:16:18) SECTION A: MORE CURRENT USES OF AI

A1: Landlords Using Shady Algorithm To Raise Rents | Judd Legum - The Majority Report - Air Date 6-15-24

A2: Lavender & Where's Daddy: How Israel Used AI to Form Kill Lists & Bomb Palestinians in Their Homes - Democracy Now! - Air Date 4-5-24

A3: The AI Revolution is Rotten to the Core - Jimmy McGee - Air Date 9-15-23

(1:44:54) SECTION B: POTENTIAL USES OF AI AND THE ETHICS WE NEED TO CONSIDER

B1: Reimagining A.I. | John Wild - Planet: Critical - Air Date 5-16-24

B2: How will AI change the world? - TED-Ed - Air Date 12-6-22

B3: AI and the future of humanity | Yuval Noah Harari at the Frontiers Forum - Air Date 5-14-23

(2:08:00) SECTION C: REGULATING AI

C1: Current, former OpenAI employees warn company not doing enough control dangers of AI - PBS Newshour - Air Date 6-5-24

C2: Former OpenAI Engineer William Saunders on Silence, Safety, and the Right to Warn - Your Undivided Attention - Air Date 6-7-24

MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)

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Credit: “Digitization Particles Hand” via geralt, Pixabay | Pixabay License | Changes: Expanded

Produced by Jay! Tomlinson

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