The Artificial Human

BBC Radio 4

Every day, we read something new about Artificial Intelligence - it'll take our jobs, it'll teach our kids, it knows more about us than we do ourselves... but how much of that is hype, and how much is, or will be reality? Part of our problem with AI is that it feels impenetrable and mysterious, especially when even those building it aren't entirely sure how it works. In a new series, Aleks Krotoski (The Digital Human, Radio 4) and Kevin Fong (13 Minutes to the Moon, BBC World Service) set out to 'solve' AI. Or at the very least, to answer our...

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The Artificial Human

Episodes (55)

Oct 28th Why aren't AI companies being stopped?
Oct 21st Will AI really kill us all?
Oct 14th Can the UK go it alone on AI?

The Artificial Human

Oct 28, 2026
29 minutes
27 MB

If the risks we hear about AI are real, why aren't the companies building it being stopped? Aleks Krotoski and Kevin Fong investigate the power and influence amassed by a handful of frontier AI firms and ask whether existing laws and institutions are capable of holding them to account. The people leading these companies promise transformative benefits for humanity, but critics argue that the race to build ever more powerful AI systems has allowed a small group of organisations to accumulate unprecedented influence. Aleks and Kevin explore the culture of Silicon Valley and the forces...

The Artificial Human

Why aren't AI companies being stopped?

BBC Radio 4

00:00 -29:01