Artificial intelligence

5 ways to help prevent AI from deepening social inequality

If the historical data used to train an AI system disadvantages certain minority groups, the system can be swayed to follow these patterns in its own decision-making process.

Lessons from COVID-19 on The Future, This Week

This week: working from home, hybrid offices, climate, Gen Z, AI and UBI, the surprising lessons we’ve learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GPT-3 AI and clean meat on The Future, This Week

This week: the media hype around AI writing essays, and how to make clean meat innovation palatable.

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Returning to work and AI confusion on The Future, This Week

This week: will Silicon Valley finally move online? And AI is confused by our weird behaviour.

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The conversations hidden by coronavirus: space, tech and climate on The Future, This Week

This week: the conversations gone missing during COVID-19: space, tech and climate.

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Coming soon: The Future, This Week Season 7

Season 7 of The Future, This Week is almost here. Join Sandra Peter and Kai Riemer as they sit down to rethink and unlearn trends in technology and business.

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Shakespearean AI and the capitalism crisis on The Future, This Week

This week: AI and Shakespeare, the capitalism crisis, and cows in VR.

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The future of work not as usual on The Future, This Week

This week: working less for more, and the future of work not as usual.

Calling bullshit and algorithms on The Future, This Week

This week: calling bullshit, sexist credit cards and death predictions with Jevin West.

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The truth, free speech and platform design on The Future, This Week

This week: the truth, free speech and the design of online platforms

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Halloween with beer corpses and zombie bots on The Future, This Week

This week: a Halloween special with beer corpses, zombie bots and connected birds

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Might consciousness and free will be the aces up our sleeves when it comes to competing with robots?

We are far from defenceless against the rise of robots, although they'll take many of our routine jobs. Our special strength is our ability to apply rules that don't exist.