How Anxious Should You Be About AI? (w/ Katie Drummond and Timnit Gebru)

About this episode

Stacey Abrams discusses the anxieties surrounding AI development with guests Katie Drummond and Timnit Gebru.

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. For a closed-captioned version of this episode, click here . For a transcript of this episode, please email transcripts@crooked.com and include the name of the podcast, episode title, and episode date. Learn & Do More: 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…

People in this episode

Host: Stacey Abrams

Guests: Katie Drummond, Timnit Gebru

Topics covered

• AI development
• economic uncertainty
• technology discourse
• optimistic future
• anxiety about technology

Keywords

• AI
• technology
• anxiety
• economic uncertainty
• future
• discourse
• optimism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wired, Distributed AI Research Institute, Read Them Home, National Coalition to End Family and Child Detention, dair-insitute.org

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