Wednesday 22 May 2024
07:45
Madhumita Murgia
Living in the Shadow of AI
AI has already infiltrated our day-to-day lives, through language-generating chatbots like ChatGPT and social media. But it’s also affecting us in more insidious ways. It touches everything from our interpersonal relationships to our kids education, work, finances, public services, and even our human rights. Madhu discusses how AI can strip away our collective and individual sense of agency, and shatter our illusion of free will.
Madhumita is an award-winning journalist, editor and speaker with expertise in the fields of technology, science and health. She is the first Artificial Intelligence Editor at the Financial Times and has been writing about AI, for Wired and the FT, for over a decade. Her first book, Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI, was published in March 2024.
'The intimate investigation of AI that we’ve been waiting for.. . [Murgia's] work brilliantly reveals the quiet daily violence and flesh and blood consequences of today’s dominant AI regime. . . [and] opens our eyes to what could have been and what might yet become if we
learn to join forces to reclaim our digital century for people and planet.'
Artificial Intelligence Editor at the FT
Madhumita is an award-winning journalist, editor and speaker with expertise in the fields of technology, science and health. She is the first Artificial Intelligence Editor at the Financial Times and has been writing about AI, for Wired and the FT, for over a decade. Her first book, Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI, was published in March 2024.
