A Pause With A Purpose

Tech for Good Live

Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Tech for Good live podcast. We talk about tech that does some kind of social good, but we also like talking about how tech could maybe be a little less terrible. This may be our 240th episode, which is very silly. In one we are talking about the news, including Internet Ninjas and Elon Musk doing something new involving AI. Oh, good.

Joining host Bex is Tech For Good Live team members Greg Ashton and Paul Jakubowski, and we are also joined by an old face/voice, Mille Vardheim.

This week’s topics:

Good story of the week:

Internet 'ninjas' fighting misinformation on Twitter. But are they in danger of becoming the trolls they hunt:

The 'ninjas' fighting climate change denial on Twitter - BBC News

Bad news story of the week:

After co signing the recent letter to demand a pause in AI development Elon Musk had started a project to develop his own competitor to ChatGPT:

Elon Musk plans AI startup to rival OpenAI, Financial Times reports - Reuters

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Next week we have an interview with our old friend Mark Walker from Ability net, an accessibility consultancy. We’ll be talking about what’s changed since we last spoke (pre-pandemic) and also about their up and coming Tech 4 Good Awards.

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