From the Theatre: Should computers run the world? - with Hannah Fry

In this month's From the Theatre episode, we revisit past Christmas Lecturer Hannah Fry's talk on the power of algorithms to continue celebrating our Discover200 campaign. Hannah Fry takes us on a tour of the good, the bad and the downright ugly of the algorithms that surround us. She lifts the lid on their inner workings, to demonstrate their power, expose their limitations, and examine whether they really are an improvement on the humans they are replacing. This talk was filmed at the Ri on 30 November 2018. Ri Science Podcast episodes are released on the last Wednesday of every month, and ‘From the Theatre’ episodes are released on the second Wednesday of the month.

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From the Theatre: Should computers run the world? - with Hannah Fry is an episode from Ri Science Podcast by The Royal Institution.

This episode is 36:04 long.

This episode was published on Oct 8, 2025.

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