Artificial intelligence (AI) has made great advances in recent years and become more a part of our everyday lives. Many argue that AI will help solve major problems like climate change and world hunger. It will also help improve the economy and make it more efficient, they contend, by eliminating dangerous and mundane jobs. But critics warn that AI's current trajectory is a dangerous one, which will likely concentrate power, increase unemployment, surveil consumers and voters, and threaten democracy. These conditions are not based on science fiction, they argue, but are already occurring, given the number of algorithms we engage with on a daily basis. Will artificial intelligence do more harm than good? Audio only.

Originally released by Intelligence Squared US, 2022. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 13, 2022.