AI and humanity’s future: chilling or thrilling?

This week we’ve taken inspiration from friend of the podcast,
Stephen Fry, who challenged Amol and Nick to look at what the
future of AI means for us all – and whether it will herald in a
utopian or dystopian future.


Dame Wendy Hall, member of UK’s AI Council and adviser to the UN,
explains why she is worried that it is too late to prevent
AI-generated deepfakes impacting elections around the world this
year.


And Professor Nick Bostrom, futurologist at Oxford University and
the man known as Elon Musk’s favourite philosopher, on how AI
might affect the future of humanity.


Plus actor and comedian Hugh Dennis pops into the studio to give
us his take on how AI could affect comedy – and share his moment
of the week.


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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson, both
presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the UK’s most
influential radio news programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor
for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s
also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has
presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s
political editor for ten years before that and also previously
worked as ITV’s political editor.


The senior producer is Tom Smithard, the producers are Hazel
Morgan and Joe Wilkinson. The editor is Louisa Lewis. The
executive producer is Owenna Griffiths. Technical production from
Hannah Montgomery and digital production from Elliot Ryder.