From Nude Robot Photos to The New York Times Suing OpenAI: How AI Feeds on Your Data, Your Life

About this episode

This episode explores the implications of AI and data privacy through the lens of a shocking story about robot vacuums leaking personal images.

What if your robot vacuum accidentally leaked naked photos of you onto Facebook—and that was just the tip of the iceberg for how your data trains AI? In this episode of The People’s AI, presented by Vana, we kick off Season 3 with a deep-dive primer on the real stakes of AI and data: in our homes, in our work, and across society. We start with a jaw-dropping story from MIT Technology Review senior reporter Eileen Guo, who uncovered how images from “smart” robot vacuums—including a woman on a ...

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Wilser

Guest: Eileen Guo

Topics covered

• AI
• data privacy
• technology ethics
• robot vacuums
• societal impact of AI

Keywords

• AI
• data
• privacy
• robot vacuum
• OpenAI
• Eileen Guo
• technology

Sponsors

Vana

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: MIT Technology Review, OpenAI, Facebook

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