From the archive: Weizenbaum’s nightmares: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI – podcast

We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors

This week, from 2023: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum was there at the dawn of artificial intelligence – but he was also adamant that we must never confuse computers with humans

By Ben Tarnoff. Read by Sam Peter Jackson

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