How to make sure the whole world benefits from AI
Tech veteran Martha Lane Fox tells us of her hopes and fears about AI. Also, the app that’s a financial lifeline in rural India, and how the future of food is being shaped.
Martha Lane Fox reflects on her 30 years in tech, including her front row seat in Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, how she remains one of very few high profile women in the industry, and why we need to make sure the whole world shapes the debate on AI.
Chenai Chair, from the Mozilla Foundation, joins us from Zimbabwe to explain the work they are doing to make sure minority languages are included in digital services.
India business correspondent Nikhil Inamdar tells us about his experience seeing an app which is helping people in poor areas claim vital welfare payments. And Spencer Kelly, from our sister programme, Click, tells us what he found out about the future of food in his trip to the markets and laboratories of Singapore.
(Photo: Martha Lane Fox (L) and Shiona McCallum (R), in London)
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