17 May 2023

How the internet is changing and what we need to know

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm on 17 May 2023

The internet as we know it is over. It's Amy Webb's job to look at where technology is taking us as head of the Future Today Institute. She says we are in the middle of a perfect storm of advances in code, generative AI and hardware  that mean we will never have to think on our own again. Professor Webb says this could go one of two ways; solving some of humanities biggest challenges or creating ones we never imagined. She argues we need the government to move quickly to guide and regulate AI so that we control the direction it is going in, not the other way around.

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