Guest: Kelsey Piper, senior writer at Vox.com

ChatGPT by OpenAI and Lensa AI are two generative artificial intelligence tools that have been going viral. There are fun uses of artificial intelligence (AI) that show the possibilities of how these might start to influence and change the world as the technologies continue to improve and get better. That said, there’s a good reason that AI and the machines battling with humans is a such a huge theme in science fiction. Even these fun tools are already forcing people to ask questions about ethical uses of AI and that’s just the beginning.

This episode was produced by Alexis Green, Paulo Marques and Raju Mudhar.

Audio sources: NBC and Cleo Abram (@cleoabram) on TikTok