Joanna Stern, senior personal technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal, joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for this week’s Tech Bytes: Week in Review.
Scott Brennen, director of NYU's Center on Technology Policy, says public utility commissions have the power to set rates for energy use and have a say in whether infrastructure permits and upgrades can move forward.
Dr. Darja Djordjevic, an adolescent and adult psychiatrist at Columbia University and coauthor of that recent report, says generative chatbots prioritize engagement, not safety.
Rohan Grover, a professor of media and AI at American University, believes public discourse around data privacy has waned, despite privacy being a more urgent issue than ever.
Journalist Evan Ratliff, host of the “Shell Game” podcast, says he launched his own startup with only AI bots as employees. His experience underlined the complicated benefits and limits of artificial intelligence.
Ken Goldberg, professor of engineering at UC Berkeley and co-founder of the AI robotics company Ambi Robotics, says home chores are that are easy for humans are often hard for robots to master.
Hannah Quay-de la Vallee, senior technologist at the Center for Democracy and Technology, coauthored a recent report that recommends more transparency on what AI education technologies can and cannot do.
Denice Ross, senior adviser at the Federation of American Scientists and former chief data scientist for the U.S., shares which federal datasets and the interactive tools have been discontinued this year, and what effect that could have.
