Ever Fallen in Love (With a Chatbot You Shouldn't've)

Tech for Good Live

Hello and welcome to yet another episode of Tech for Good Live! It’s a podcast all about using technology to have a positive social impact on the world.

In this week's episode we are talking about ChatGPT because of course we are.

We are also partying like it’s 2016 because we're discussing how elections are ripe for abuse.

Joining host Bex we have TFGL team members, producer Paul and Greg Ashton.

Our special guest this week is Karen Dolva, co-founder of No Isolation, a Norwegian company founded in 2015 with an aim to reduce social isolation and loneliness by developing warm technology.

Good story of the week:

Many many many years ago we talked about education needing to better adapt to students using Google. Now ChatGPT has presented an even more pressing need to adapt. This article shared by Karen presents some great discussions that are already happening:

Artificial intelligence: Are we smart enough? - NRK (Norwegian)

In a weird turn, Bing's new version of ChatGPT has fallen in love with journalist Kevin Roose:

Creepy Microsoft Bing Chatbot Urges Tech Columnist To Leave His Wife - Huffington Post

Bad news story of the week:

It was something we all suspected. And now the Guardian and an international team of journalists have confirmed that not only are there organised efforts to sway elections through social media. But someone has turned it into a lucrative business:

Revealed: the hacking and disinformation team meddling in elections - The Guardian

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Come back for next week's podcast, where we’ll have more of a proper chat with Karen about warm technology, digital inclusion and much more. As a teaser to that, No Isolation created the AV1, one of the Tech for Good Live team’s favourite stories.. AV1 is a little robot who can enable children to get out and about when they otherwise wouldn’t be able to.

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