It’s writing podcast scripts, finishing students’ homework and correcting mistakes in computer code: ChatGPT, the A.I. chatbot from OpenAI, is suddenly everywhere. Who should decide how it’s built? What could go wrong? And what could go right?

On today’s episode:

Aviv Ovadya, a technologist and affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence.

Additional reading:

ChatGPT is inspiring awe and fear among users.
Aviv Ovadya proposes governing tech platforms democratically through “platform democracy.”
Meta’s Cicero AI is getting good at negotiating with humans.
Researchers are diagnosing Parkinson’s using a phone, a patient’s voice and a machine learning model.

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