Wired: The Creators of "Hacks" Really, Really, REALLY Hate AI (and they talk about the "spreading authoritarian regime") [View all]
This is a 42-minute podcast, but this page has both the link for listening and the transcript:
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-hacks-cocreators-paul-w-downs-lucia-aniello/
Wikipedia on Hacks, if you're completely unfamiliar with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks .
I don't get HBO Max, haven't watched the show, but have been hearing about it and watching clips and applauding Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder winning awards.
I enjoyed reading what two of the shows' three creators had to say about the show and about society in general (including that bright college students who want to become doctors and nurses should get that medical education for free).
What caught my attention initially was the headline about their hatred of AI.
From the intro about the podcast:
The show’s cocreators couldn’t agree more. In a wide-ranging conversation for The Big Interview ahead of the Hacks series finale on HBO Max, Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello were resolute about the value of human creativity—and what can be lost when AI enters the picture.
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But it's about so much more, including censorship and Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel. Some of what Lucia Aniello said:
And because comedians are able to get that message across the most effectively, naturally, that's the first group of people that they're going after in terms of free speech.
And then Paul Downs adds, "And journalists."
The interview was done by Wired editor Katie Drummond, who's been very outspoken on the importance of covering politics in a tech magazine.See what she wrote two years ago:
https://www.wired.com/story/why-and-how-wired-is-covering-politics/
And they endorsed Harris:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219651243
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