In today's episode, I am joined by Amirah Mitchell, who has been interested in artificial intelligence for a while and has been working with the technology, trying to understand the various ways in which it can be a helpful tool for us. In our discussion, we talk about social media and how AI is already being used to hyper-target our feeds with videos and posts that will keep us engaged, how AI is already being used and could be used in the medical field as a societal benefit, and how this tool may try to change our politics little by little.

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