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The new series of BBC Two’s The Future with Hannah Fry opens its AI discussion with an unsettling comparison: people have reshaped the world around gorillas, while AI may be operating on terms people struggle to understand. An Irish Times review says the episode moves from machine learning to the more immediate risks of bias and fake news.
Why it mattersThe review also quotes UC Berkeley researcher Sergey Levine on how physical experience can teach machines things text alone cannot, and AI researcher Melanie Mitchell on facial-recognition errors affecting people with darker skin. That shifts the conversation from a distant superintelligence to harms already familiar enough to deserve less hand-waving.
Discuss: Should AI coverage spend more time on present-day harms such as bias and fake news, or on the longer-term risk of losing control?
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