AI Now Institute founders Meredith Whittaker and Kate Crawford talk with Recode's Kara Swisher about artificial intelligence in this live interview recorded at the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. In this episode: What is the AI Now Institute?; how "dirty data" can lead to faulty AI conclusions; how machine learning works; the “whack-a-mole” problem of biased search results; the politics of AI; diversity in computer science; what systems should not be run by humans?; Amazon's résumé-scanning AI failure; how the industry is trying to regulate itself and “ethics theater”; which federal agency should monitor AI in the US?; China’s creepy “social credit score”; the ways facial recognition and other invasions of privacy are creeping into the US, too; the Google walkout and protecting whistleblowers inside tech companies; and why Elon Musk is wrong about AI’s dangers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
No persons identified in this episode.
This episode hasn't been transcribed yet
Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.
Popular episodes get transcribed faster
Other episodes from Decoder with Nilay Patel
Transcribed and ready to explore now
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul
03 Mar 2025
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer is betting on the human touch — and AI
24 Feb 2025
Decoder with Nilay Patel
DeepSeek, Stargate, and the new AI arms race
30 Jan 2025
Decoder with Nilay Patel
How Ciena keeps the internet online, with CEO Gary Smith
27 Jan 2025
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI
13 Jan 2025
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Answering your biggest Decoder questions
20 Dec 2024
Decoder with Nilay Patel