Tag: Manipulation

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    #35: Recommenders and Finding Online Content

    Recommender systems are all around us in the digital realm. We're constantly bombarded with automatic recommendations for what to watch, what to listen to, what to read, what to buy, what to eat, or where to travel to. Chances are that's how you found this very podcast! Ian and Michael discuss recommenders and their flaws, and the difficulties both for consumers to find good online content and for creators to find an audience for their content.

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    #31: Controlling Your Life with AI

    Ian and Michael give up on humanity and discuss the prospects of just letting the machines run the show. In previous episodes, we have discussed the role of AI in automating your life, and how AI is used by various actors (with varying degrees of malevolence) to manipulate you. But what if you could deliberately and consciously use AI to control your behaviour? And what if we automated the politicians away (imagine the savings!)? 

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    #19: Explainable AI

    In an increasingly automated world where even potentially life-and-death decisions may be outsourced to AI, who frequently operate as black boxes, understanding how and why the decisions were made becomes ever more critical. Ian and Michael discuss the concept of explainable AI.

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    #5: AI and the Consumer

    Ian and Michael discuss how AI is used to influence (or, less charitably, manipulate) consumer behaviour.

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    #3: Social Media and Manipulation, Part 2

    Ian and Michael had too much to say on social media, manipulation and the role of AI to fit the entire conversation into a single episode, so the conversation continues where the previous episode left off!

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    #2: Social Media and Manipulation

    Is social media a force for good, or the ultimate lobbying machine? Ian and Michael discuss the role social media and the role of AI in social media.