About this episode

The episode discusses a letter from 1914 that raises questions about the implications of technology, drawing parallels to modern artificial intelligence.

Send us Fan Mail A Letter From 1914 Saw AI Coming A woman sat at her kitchen table in Detroit in 1914 and wrote a letter to Henry Ford. She wasn't asking for more money. She wasn't demanding that the assembly line be shut down. She was asking a question every generation eventually has to answer: What do we owe the people standing beside the machine? Today, the machine isn't an assembly line. It's artificial intelligence. The technology has changed. The constitutional question hasn't....

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Host: Tony Michaels

Topics covered

• artificial intelligence
• history
• technology
• ethics
• labor
• society

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• Henry Ford
• 1914
• Detroit
• ethics
• technology
• labor

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Books & works: A Letter From 1914 Saw AI Coming

Places: Detroit

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