S8E1 - Staying Human in the Age of AI with Dr Susie Alegre

About this episode

Andrew Grill and Dr Susie Alegre discuss the impact of AI on human rights and freedom of thought.

In this season 8 opener of Digitally Curious, recorded live at the Roof Gardens in London, Andrew Grill is joined by leading human rights lawyer and author Dr Susie Alegre to ask a vital question: how do we stay human in the age of AI? Susie shares how the Cambridge Analytica scandal pushed her to focus on technology that “hacks humans” by profiling how we think, feel and vote, and why she believes this is a direct attack on our freedom of thought. Drawing on her books Freedom to Think and Hu...

People in this episode

Host: Andrew Grill

Guest: Dr Susie Alegre

Topics covered

• AI
• human rights
• technology ethics
• freedom of thought
• Cambridge Analytica
• human behavior

Keywords

• AI
• human rights
• Cambridge Analytica
• technology
• freedom of thought
• human behavior
• ethics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cambridge Analytica

Books & works: Freedom to Think, Hu...

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