Oxford AI ethicist Carissa Véliz on AI risks, chatbots, and democracy
CarissaVeliz · x · 2026-09-18
The podcast 'Hablemos con Denise Maerker' aired a 64-minute interview with Carissa Véliz, philosopher at Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, on the risks of accelerated AI development and the growing power of big tech companies.
Topics include the limits of AI models, the pitfalls of using chatbots for emotional problems, AI's impact on democracy and independent thinking, who is behind these models and their interests, and whether the biggest risk is AI turning against us or how humans choose to use it.
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