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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Monica Lam: Privacy in the age of virtual assistants
Description: Can we reap the benefits of artificial intelligence while also protecting our personal information?
From scheduling appointments to setting the thermostat to ordering pizza, virtual assistants are growing more commonplace by the day. Stanford professor Monica Lam says they will only become more entrenched as their capabilities grow and their voice-recognition skills become more accurate.
Such developments are welcomed by many who rely upon Alexa and Siri and other virtual assistants. But it is also troubling to those, like Lam, who worry that privacy concerns and lack of competition put too much power in the hands of a few companies...