Nancy Fields is a minister and professor at the seminary. She has taught at Sing Sing for years. The teacher learns from the students what to teach them, she says. Too often in criminal justice, we view the answer to the crime problem as entirely disciplinary.
Wiping out a tenth of the world? Possible. Wiping out all of humanity? Less likely, but not entirely impossible. We examine how two groups of experts have arrived at these worrying predictions about AI. Education is giving hope to inmates in a maximum security prison in New York (11:17). And, on Britain’s working men’s clubs which have nurtured rock bands for decades (18:00).
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