We sat down with Carissa Véliz, author of 'Privacy is Power' and Oxford AI Ethics professor, to talk about how predictive AI will make a 'meritocracy' impossible, how lifelike chat bots are designed to deceive you, and the importance of privacy in the digital age. Carissa Véliz is an associate professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, a renowned author and speaker, a board member of the Proton Foundation, and a member of UNESCO's Women 4 Ethical AI.
Her new book, 'Prophecy,' comes out on April 21st. Prophecy is about how extensive use of predictive analytics is undermining our abilities to defy the odds, making systems unaccountable, and increasing risk in business and society while creating a false sense of security.
00:48 Why Personalized Algorithms Are Bad
05:07 How AI Can Remove Freedom
08:44 How You Can Be Manipulated
12:54 Why Chatbots Are So Humanlike
15:12 How Do Our Privacy Affects Others
18:35 How To Make AI Private
22:42 How To Keep AI From Controlling Us
26:06 How To Fix AI
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