Sunday School: Robot Reboot – good machine v bad machine
Show notes
It's all kicking off on planet AI again this week – Britain is about to spend £100m on an AI biosecurity lab, yet more jobs are being replaced by AI and some investors are making money by betting the whole AI investment circus is going to come crashing down.
Alex and Kenny ask What and Why, and take a look at the disturbing flood of AI political attack ads that risk skewing public debate with, well, machine-generated lies.
Talking of things that threaten civilization, why was there such a media fuss about Andy Burnham's 'be prepared' message this week? How can 'Don't go hungry if the power fails' be construed as a messaging failure?
PLUS With Burnham on Gogglebox, we look at which other shows politicians could be parachuted into. Warning: topic may not be taken seriously.
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