It’s writing podcast scripts, finishing students’ homework and correcting mistakes in computer code: ChatGPT, the A.I. chatbot from OpenAI, is suddenly everywhere. Who should decide how it’s built? What could go wrong? And what could go right?

On today’s episode:

• Aviv Ovadya, a technologist and affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a visiting scholar at Cambridge University Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence.

Additional reading:

• ChatGPT is inspiring awe and fear • among users. • Aviv Ovadya proposes governing tech platforms democratically through “ platform democracy • .” • Meta’s Cicero AI • is getting good at negotiating with humans. • Researchers are diagnosing Parkinson’s using a phone, a patient’s voice and a machine learning model • .

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