Debunking the AI hype

Has Western policy-making been broken by AI? Andrew Orlowski thinks so. The writer and journalist believes that our governing elites have become obsessed by artificial intelligence and Large Language Models in particular — yet, he argues, these technologies have singularly failed to live up to their promise.

In the latest episode of The Critic Show, Orlowski speaks with Tom Jones and Chris Bayliss about how the techno-utilitarian impulse behind this obsession also has much deeper roots, and many its advocates are entwined in a modern day cult of twisted morality.

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