A new frontier indeed
“You don't really need to implant chips in people's brains in order to control them or to manipulate them. For thousands of years prophets and poets and politicians have used language and storytelling in order to manipulate and to control people and to reshape society. Now AI is likely to be able to do it. And once it can do that, it doesn't need to send killer robots to shoot us.”
- Yuval N. Harari
If you think that’s funny …
AI developer Tom Graham in conversation with TED Chris Anderson about Deepfakes. Product demos included for your delight.
‘Social Dilemma’ on steroids
“Teach an AI to fish, and it will teach itself biology, chemistry, oceanography, evolutionary theory … and fish all the fish to extinction.” - Humane Technology evangelists Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss AI capabilities and our ability to control it.