How Anxious Should You Be About AI? (w/ Katie Drummond and Timnit Gebru)
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Show notes
AI development is barreling ahead with no guardrails, leading Americans to feel anxious about what lies ahead. This week, Stacey tackles the big questions we need to ask ourselves about the technology with Katie Drummond, Global Editorial Director at Wired, and Timnit Gebru, founder and Executive Director at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). They discuss the economic uncertainty created by AI, , the motivations driving tech leaders, making sense of the flurry of information and opinions that are influencing the discourse on the issue, and whether we can imagine a more optimistic technologically-forward future.
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Be Curious: Subscribe to Wired to gain access to their excellent reporting on technology, politics, science, and culture. Solve Problems: Learn about Timnit’s organization at dair-insitute.org to support their work to imagine an alternative technological future and build a better world. Do Good: Building off of the “Read Them Home” Dilley activation, on Wednesday May 20th Stacey will join other members of Read Them Home and the National Coalition to End Family and Child Detention to host a day of action. Visit readthemhome.org to learn more and support and support our activations in DC and around the country.
