Exploring AI Matters
Our mission is to help the policy community understand the breadth and richness of AI and the potential for such technologies, wisely applied, to augment all sorts of human endeavors.
Some AI tools are able to assist humans in performing tasks faster, more accurately, or more efficiently. Some, however, are inaccurate and unreliable. Who or what we hold accountable for these flaws, and what incentives we do or do not create for their correction will influence AI’s hand in how we work.
In this series we will refine, sharpen, and clarify your understanding of AI.
Exploring AI Matters
Latest Episodes
Episode 26 - AI Only Fakes Empathy
In 2023 New York Times journalist Kevin Roose reported that a chatbot had declared love for him and urged him to divorce his wife. Since then stories abound of vulnerable people harming themselves after lengthy exchanges with GenAI chatbo...
Episode 25 - Privacy in the Time of AI
Once upon a time we thought we had privacy. Then came credit cards, which captured the card owner's location and activity with each transaction. Then came the Internet, which made connecting all the dots easy and cheap, and the erosion of priva...
Episode 24 - Lost in Translation
The public has been fascinated by the experience of interacting with large language models, or LLMs, like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. Inaccuracies, called hallucinations, continue to appear in LLM output. Some lawyers, amo...