August 6, 2018 · 45:20 · 7 min
Social engineering, Cambridge Analytica, Johnson's rebuttal
The hosts read the researcher's claim that militaries are reading his models and his insistence that the work must continue openly because groups like Cambridge Analytica do it anyway. Then physicist Neil Johnson's rebuttal: these models are cartoons of the real world, 'prediction' should be called 'opinion', and if the models' power is overstated, so is the ethical concern.