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Zeynep Tufekci: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response.

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  • Originally Aired October 27, 2017
  • Runtime 15 minutes
  • Content Rating United States of America TV-PG
  • Production Code ZeynepTufekci_2017G
  • Network YouTube
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