Carissa Véliz on the dangers of predictive AI

Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast by Sifted

May 28, 202632:44Business

In this episode of the Sifted podcast, host John Thornhill sits down with Carissa Véliz, AI ethicist, philosopher and associate professor at Oxford University to explore how algorithms and data are reshaping our lives an...

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