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Carissa Véliz discusses the implications of predictive AI on meritocracy and the importance of privacy.

We sat down with Carissa Véliz, author of 'Privacy is Power' and Oxford AI Ethics professor, to talk about how predictive AI will make a 'meritocracy' impossible, how lifelike chat bots are designed to deceive you, and the importance of privacy in...

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Guest: Carissa Véliz

Topics covered

• AI ethics
• meritocracy
• privacy
• predictive AI
• deception in technology

Keywords

• AI
• meritocracy
• privacy
• predictive technology
• chat bots

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Organizations: Oxford, Proton

Books & works: Privacy is Power

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