Wally is joined by machine learning engineer and AI enthusiast, Axel Magnuson, to disambiguate the terms used to talk about AI and to discuss the future promise and ethical land mines of our tech and media landscape.
Media mentioned/recommended in the episode:
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by Matthew B. Crawford
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
Everything by Cory Doctorow, but especially his essay on “Enshitification.” That and other essay can be found here.
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