About this episode
Gideon Rachman discusses the backlash against AI with Sebastian Mallaby, exploring public concerns and potential government responses.
Gideon talks to Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Infinity Machine , a book about the career of Demis Hassabis and his AI company, Google DeepMind. They discuss the growing backlash against AI, why people are worried, and what governments can do to mitigate the risks of the coming technological revolution. Clip: WSJ Free links to read more on this topic: OpenAI’s foundation to spend $250mn on research into AI’s impact on economy Pope’s appeal can’t change the AI race’s risky logic AI guardrails stripped from Meta and Google models in minutes How AI threatens the giants of consulting AI companies are just companies Subscribe to The Rachman Review wherever you get your podcasts - please listen, rate and subscribe. Presented by Gideon Rachman. Produced by Fiona Symon. Sound design is by Breen Turner. Follow Gideon on Bluesky or X @gideonrachman.bsky.social , @gideonrachman Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: Gideon Rachman
Guest: Sebastian Mallaby
Topics covered
- AI backlash
- technology risks
- government policy
- DeepMind
- public concern
- economic impact
Keywords
- AI
- backlash
- DeepMind
- government
- technology
- Sebastian Mallaby
- Gideon Rachman
- economic impact
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Meta, WSJ, Financial Times
Books & works: The Infinity Machine
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