Episode Details

As of this week, we have a new president-elect. We discuss how the incoming administration’s approach to technology will affect Elon Musk, a TikTok ban, Big Tech’s antitrust challenges and the speed of A.I. progress. Then, Kashmir Hill, a technology reporter for The Times, joins to discuss her weeklong experiment of letting A.I. make every decision in her life. And finally, we play a round of election-free HatGPT!

Guest:

• Kashmir Hill, technology reporter for The New York Times.

Additional Reading:

• What a Trump Victory Means for Tech
• I Took a ‘Decision Holiday’ and Put A.I. in Charge of My Life
• An ‘Interview’ With a Dead Luminary Exposes the Pitfalls of A.I.
• Meta’s Plan for Nuclear-Powered A.I. Data Center Thwarted by Rare Bees
• Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World’s Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information

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