Menace or Saviour? Anthony Elliott on Artificial Intelligence and coronavirus

Seriously Social

In science fiction films and books, Artificial Intelligence (or A-I) is usually either depicted as a menace to society or the saviour of the human race. Which is it?

In this episode of the Seriously Social podcast, journalist Ginger Gorman speaks to Professor Anthony Elliott, an expert on the way humans interact with technology. With fresh eyes Anthony unpicks our issues with the Australian Government’s COVIDSafe app, and reveals the unprecedented ways in which A-I–usually so invisible to most of us–is helping us fight the deadly coronavirus on a global scale.

Useful Links

• The Culture of AI: Everyday Life and the Digital Revolution Anthony Elliott
• COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium
• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Shoshana Zubof
• The Big Nudge: Here's how the government could spread its coronavirus tracing app far, fast and wide David P Byrne, Richard Holden & Joshua B Miller