Are your online choices truly yours, or are they being engineered by hidden algorithms?
In short: AI ethicist Jen Golbeck and TED Fellow Shalini Kantayya examine how data collection and artificial intelligence influence your daily decisions. This discussion explores strategies to reclaim your digital privacy and defines the ethical boundaries for what AI should be permitted to decide.
Recorded on June 12, 2026, this episode of the Idea Knock Down series brings together experts with differing perspectives to address the impact of big tech on individual autonomy. The conversation focuses on the tension between using modern internet services and maintaining personal privacy.
The speakers investigate practical ways to push back against algorithmic manipulation. By questioning the extent of AI influence, they highlight the necessity of establishing clear limits on machine decision-making to ensure users remain in control of their own lives online.
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