Taking AI seriously

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Tech for Good Live podcast. 

In this episode we talk about taking AI seriously. We also talk about not taking AI seriously, because apparently the human manifestation of bin juice, Elon Musk, is getting into the AI business. It’s going as well as you’d expect.

NOTE: This podcast was recorded shortly before last weekend's fireworks in the world of AI, when Sam Altman was still the CEO of OpenAI.

Host Bex is joined by Tech For Good Live team members Greg Ashton, Tom Passmore and Producer Paul.

Our special guest this week is Stuart Pearson - formerly working for the Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale and Trafford area of Citizens Advice as Head of Business Delivery; but now on secondment with Manchester City Council as their Senior Digital Strategy Officer 

Come back for next week's episode where we talk to Stuart in more detail about Manchester's Digital Strategy.

This week’s topics:

Good story of the week:

Given past experience, governments including our own have surprised us all by actually taking the challenges of AI serious:

Five takeaways from UK’s AI safety summit at Bletchley Park - The Guardian

Biden hails ‘bold action’ of US government with order on safe use of AI  - The Guardian 

Bad news story of the week:

More legislation couldn't come soon enough as tech bros use AI for that well known worthy cause - throwing shade:

Elon Musk and Sam Altman are arguing over whose bot is better - Fortune 

And finally

Turns out if you buy a Cybertruck from Tesla and sell it in the first year they will sue you.

Want a Cybertruck? You're stuck with it for a year, says Tesla - The Register 

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