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The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason

The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason

FromThe Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones


The Future of Predictions: A Discussion with Christopher E. Mason

FromThe Future of . . . with Owen Bennett-Jones

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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Dec 9, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Predictive algorithms are changing the world – that is the claim of Christopher E. Mason who has co-authored (with Igor Tulchinsky) the book The Age of Prediction: Algorithms, AI, and the Shifting Shadows of Risk (MIT Press, 2023). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones.
Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press.
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Released:
Dec 9, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (98)

Veteran journalist Owen Bennett-Jones delves into the some of the most pressing issues of our time with politicians, scholars, scientists, doctors, writers, public intellectuals and thought-leaders.