Episode Details

It’s writing podcast scripts, finishing students’ homework and correcting mistakes in computer code: ChatGPT, the A.I. chatbot from OpenAI, is suddenly everywhere. Who should decide how it’s built? What could go wrong? And what could go right?

On today’s episode:

• Aviv Ovadya, a technologist and affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence.

Additional reading:

• ChatGPT is inspiring awe and fear among users.
• Aviv Ovadya proposes governing tech platforms democratically through “platform democracy.”
• Meta’s Cicero AI is getting good at negotiating with humans.
• Researchers are diagnosing Parkinson’s using a phone, a patient’s voice and a machine learning model.

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