BBC OS Conversations: How AI is changing our lives

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Thousands of people from all around the world came to Paris this week to talk about the impact of artificial intelligence in society. The rapidly growing technology can emulate a human response and has the potential to learn quickly. This allows it to generate images and words, for example, and do a range of jobs faster and cheaper than humans. We hear from three tech entrepreneurs in Ghana, Denmark and Nigeria where AI is making a positive impact on their businesses. There are other industries, however, where workers fear losing jobs due to AI. Two writers from the UK and the United States share how the technology has reduced some of their work prospects.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Luke Jones. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. In BBC OS conversations, we bring people together from around the globe to share their experiences. This time, we're focusing on how AI is changing our lives.
0:18.4	World leaders and tech experts met in Paris in the past week to discuss the future of artificial intelligence, or AI.
0:25.9	There will be benefits, but for one of our guests, who's a writer, they've also been downsides as it's replaced some of her work.
0:32.9	I try not to feel worthless. I've had a long career. But now it's a struggle and I think,
0:39.8	how am I going to support my family? How am I going to pay our bills? So it's scary.
0:48.3	We'll hear more about those concerns later on. The AI summit in France saw representatives from 80 countries examine the technology's
0:56.5	positives and negatives. In the end, most countries signed an international agreement to work
1:02.5	together and share ideas around its development. Although the US and the UK didn't, they said
1:08.8	they had concerns about national security and global governance.
1:12.7	On a day-to-day level, many of us around the world are also experimenting and wondering what
1:17.1	the future might be, while for some AI is very much part of the present, and we'll discuss that
1:22.1	in just a second in our first conversation. Before we do, though, throughout today's edition,
1:26.4	you'll hear our guests refer to
1:28.1	chat GPT. Now, it's possible you might have already heard about this chatbot from California
1:33.6	in the US. It uses artificial intelligence to understand and generate human-like, written or
1:40.4	visual content, learning and improving as it goes along. And it's proved extremely popular
1:45.0	with around 300 million weekly users. There are other apps, of course, and one in particular
1:50.5	seemingly came from nowhere in the last few weeks to take the tech world by storm. I'm talking
1:55.7	about Deepseek from China, which quickly overtook chat GPT on the download charts. That was very much a
2:02.7	talking point in Paris. We discussed deep seek the other day on our weekly OS show. Here's a short
2:08.5	extract of that conversation from Woe King, who is based in the UK and owns several AI companies.
2:15.3	He said he was absolutely overjoyed about Deepseek.
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