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Shawn Ennis discusses the conflicting narratives surrounding AI and its impact on jobs and privacy.

Send us Fan Mail If you’ve read the news in the last three years, you’ve been handed two stories about AI — and they can’t both be true. Story one: the machines are coming for your job, your kid’s job, your retirement, your privacy. Story two: it’s all hype, a bubble about to pop and take your 401(k) with it. Shawn Ennis — 25 years in technology, an Auburn-trained engineer with a dozen patents, who built three companies and sold one to Oracle — sits down to take the scariest, most hyped subje...

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Guest: Shawn Ennis

Topics covered

• AI
• technology
• employment
• privacy
• hype
• patents

Keywords

• AI
• technology
• employment
• privacy
• patents
• hype
• Shawn Ennis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oracle

Places: Auburn

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