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The Sunday 7 - Does AI put humans at risk of extinction? Plus, America’s Surgeon General wants warning labels on Social Media, why your Lettuce is trying to kill you, and life with a Third Thumb

The Smart 7
The Smart 7
Episode • Jun 23, 2024 • 17m

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Today's episode includes the following guests:


Guests 

  • Dame Wendy Hall - Professor of Computer Science 
  • Connor Leahy - CEO and Founder of Conjecture
  • Baroness Beeban Kidran - Chair of the 5 Rights Organisation  
  • Will Guyatt - The Smart 7’s Tech Guru 
  • Jim Winship - Director of the British Sandwich and Food to Go Association
  • Dr Sarah Pitt - Virologist at the University of Brighton
  • Mark Cukosky - Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University 
  • Tony Chen - Post Doctoral Researcher working on the Reach Bot project
  • Dr Vivek Murthy - American’s Surgeon General  
  • Dr Alok Patel  - ABC News Medical Contributor 
  •  Dani Clode - Collaborator at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge
  • Lucy Dowdall - Co-author and team member at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge
  • Edwin Luschi - Head Keeper at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi  


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Presented by Ciara Revins, written by Liam Thompson and produced by Daft Doris.

 




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