{"id":1129,"date":"2025-03-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asian-idol.com\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:54:08","slug":"the-ai-revolution-is-here-can-we-build-a-good-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/asian-idol.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/the-ai-revolution-is-here-can-we-build-a-good-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI revolution is here. Can we build a Good Robot?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There\u2019s a thought experiment<\/a> that has taken on almost mythic status among a certain group of technologists: If you build an artificial intelligence and give it a seemingly innocuous goal, like making as many paper clips as possible, it might eventually turn everything \u2014 including humanity \u2014 into raw material for more paper clips. <\/p>\n

Absurd parables like this one have been taken seriously by some of the loudest voices in Silicon Valley, many of whom are now warning that AI is an existential risk<\/a>, more dangerous than nuclear weapons. These stories have shaped how billionaires including Elon Musk<\/a> think about AI and fueled a growing movement of people who believe it could be the best or worst thing to ever happen to humanity.<\/p>\n

But another faction of AI experts argue that debating those hypothetical risks is obscuring the real damage AI is already doing<\/a>: Automated hiring systems reinforcing discrimination<\/a>. AI-generated deepfakes making it harder to tell what\u2019s real<\/a>. Large language models like ChatGPT confidently spreading misinformation<\/a>. (Disclosure: Vox Media is one of several publishers that has signed partnership agreements with OpenAI.) <\/p>\n

So what exactly should we actually be worried about when it comes to AI? <\/p>\n

In Good Robot<\/strong>, a special four-part podcast series launching March 12 from Unexplainable<\/em> and Future Perfect<\/em>, host Julia Longoria<\/strong> goes deep into the strange, high-stakes world of AI to answer that question. But this isn\u2019t just a story about technology \u2014 it\u2019s about the people shaping it, the competing ideologies driving them, and the enormous consequences of getting this right (or wrong).<\/p>\n

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