THE TRUE STORY OF A.I. WITH TRACEY SPICER
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THE TRUE STORY OF A.I. WITH TRACEY SPICER
In this curtain raiser for November's True Story Festival of non-fiction writing, award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer talks to Caroline Baum about the scary and unexpected ethical and everyday implications of AI in our lives. How have age-old prejudices around gender and race been built into robots? What can we do to make algorithms more representative of who we are? An unmissable conversation for anyone who cares about the human race.
Join us as Tracey Spicer speaks about her new book, Man-Made: How the Bias of the Past is Being Built into the Future, and the True Story festival program is revealed.
Tracey Spicer AM is a multiple Walkley Award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster who has anchored national programs for ABC TV and radio, Network Ten and Sky News.
The Creative Director of True Story festival, Caroline Baum is an author, journalist and presenter of Life Sentences, a podcast about contemporary biography. She is an Ambassador for the Older Women's Network.
True Story Festival is a partnership between South Coast Writers Centre, The Illawarra Flame, and Life Sentences podcast.
True Story Festival is supported by funding from Culture Bank Wollongong, and by our neighbours Coledale RSL and Collins Booksellers Thirroul.