The Politics of Technology

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"There's good in us, there's evil in us," says political scientist David Frum. "Technology amplifies the possibility of much greater good and much greater evil" Technology often plays to a lot of our worst instincts, he argues. But it also seems like we're expanding them without a very well thought out idea of what they would actually help us do as people.

A.I. is no longer the stuff of science fiction. From Siri and Alexa to Chat GPT, our world is now inundated with artificial intelligence. One senses that it’s time to think more deeply about A.I. — its implications and its assumptions.

In this episode, you'll hear an excerpt from a Forum event at Iowa State University from March 2023. Josh Swamidass (WashU), a medical doctor and computer scientist, discusses the role of artificial intelligence today with Clark Wolf (Iowa State), a bioethicist and philosopher. Their conversation is moderatored by Alex Tuckness (Iowa State), a political science professor.

Watch the full Forum event here.
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