Rnz: Afternoons With Jesse Mulligan

The AI debate usually sounds like a choice between the camp that thinks artificial intelligence will solve our biggest problems, and the other camp, certain it will create entirely new ones. But there's a lot of territory between utopia and apocalypse. That's where longtime journalist Josh Tyrangiel is looking. Rather than asking what AI might do in theory, he looks at what happens when people put it to work deliberately using the technology alongside human judgement to tackle genuine problems in the world today. His book is called AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter.