About this episode
Imagine living life under constant evaluation—your behaviours, choices, and even friendships scrutinised and scored by artificial intelligence. Sounds dystopian, doesn’t it? Well, it’s already here. --- A message from our Sponsor : Sensay creates AI-powered digital replicas to preserve and share individual and organizational knowledge, turning it into scalable, sustainable, and autonomous wisdom. Visit Sensay at Sensay.io And listen to Dan, Sensay's CEO and founder, in this episode ! --- In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI , Professor Gephardt pulls back the curtain on AI-driven social scoring systems. Learn how algorithms quietly judge our worthiness, shaping our opportunities and even our rights. We’ll unpack China’s controversial Social Credit System, highlight ethical dilemmas around privacy and discrimination, and discover how the EU is fighting to protect fundamental human rights. And don’t worry—we've got a tasty cake metaphor to make things crystal clear! --- Tune in to get my thoughts, don't forget to subscribe to our Newsletter ! Want to get in contact? Write me an email: podcast@argo.berlin --- This podcast was generated with the help of ChatGPT 4.5 and , Mistral. We do fact check with human eyes, but there still might be hallucinations in the output. And, by the way, it's read by an AI voice. Music credit: "Modern Situations" by Unicorn Heads