When it comes to the dangers of AI, surveillance poses more risk than anything

NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with Paul Scharre about how tech giants and the world’s militaries are wielding the power of artificial intelligence. It’s the subject of his new book Four Battlegrounds.

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

At least 1 billion surveillance cameras are spying on the world right now according to one estimate, and more than half of them are in China, though the country has less than a fifth of the world’s population. To sort through data from those hundreds of millions of cameras, the Chinese government is enlisting the help of artificial intelligence – technology that can identify faces, voices,

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