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Episode 5 – The white mask

Episode 5 – The white mask

FromBlack Box


Episode 5 – The white mask

FromBlack Box

ratings:
Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Mar 18, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In January 2020, Robert Williams was arrested by Detroit police for a crime he had not committed. The officers were acting on a tip not from a witness or informant. In fact, not from a person at all
Released:
Mar 18, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (8)

At some point in the past few years, humanity collided with a new kind of intelligence. And things are getting strange. People are being accused of crimes by algorithms; falling in love with digital beings; pioneering new ways to fight old diseases; turning to machines for comfort in their worst moments, and using artificial intelligence to commit - and hide from - terrible crimes. The Guardian’s Michael Safi investigates the story of a technology so complex that its own creators have no idea what it is thinking, and captures a snapshot of the era when people first made contact with AI