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Be My AI: When innovation and privacy clash

An AI-powered tool helped blind people make sense of the world - then ran into privacy concerns. We find out what happened next. And a rare interview with the boss of Spotfiy.

An AI-powered tool helped blind people make sense of the world - then ran into privacy concerns. Be My AI user, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Sean Dilley, in Washington DC, tells us what happened next.

A rare interview with the boss of Spotfiy, Daniel Ek, who tells us there is a place for AI in music making.

Plus, reporter Marc Cieslak tells us about second thumbs and brain hacking, as he explores the mind boggling world of neural interface technology.

(Photo: A blind man using a mobile phone. Credit: Agrobacter/Getty Images)

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