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Dan Dennett: Fake People Aren’t Funny

Dan Dennett: Fake People Aren’t Funny

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
Sea. 21 Ep. null37 min
25 Jul 23
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Counterfeit people, the seductively appealing Deep Fakes made possible by AI, are just the beginning of what the distinguished philosopher Dan Dennett says is a threat to humanity. This spring, he joined hundreds of other thought leaders in signing a starkly scary statement: AI threatens to make us extinct.