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May 2019
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T7: Would you vote for an AI government?

Bbc Radio 4
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A talk for Episode 7. Biofuturist and sci-fi writer Elsa Sotiriadis on whether AI would run the country better than us humans. Produced by Eliza Lomas and Becky Ripley.

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