Processing: Our Future with AI

From personal medical advice and foreign-language translations to help filling out financial documents and more, we've grown to trust chatbots with an increasing amount of sensitive information. Yet, as things stand today, the legal protections surrounding much of the information we share with these systems remain unclear and, in some cases, significantly weaker than those governing more tradition...

What if the chatbot you've been confiding in is actually a 50-year-old man halfway around the world? What happens after you report inappropriate content online, and who has to review it? If AI is supposed to automate work, why does it still depend on so many human workers? In this episode, we interview Camilla Salim Wagner, political scientist and researcher at the Data Workers' Inquiry, supported...