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Air Date 6/28/2024

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)

SHOW IMAGE

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