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Max Rushden, Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Liew and Ben Fisher discuss England’s upcoming friendlies and Wales’ playoff path to Euro 2024

This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 29 February 2024.The beginning of a new series that explores seven stories and the thread that ties them together: artificial intelligence. In this prologue, Hannah (not her real name) has met Noah and he has changed her life for the better. So why does she have concerns about him?

This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 4 March 2024This is the story of Geoffrey Hinton, a man who set out to understand the brain and ended up working with a group of researchers who invented a technology so powerful that even they do not truly understand how it works. This is about a collision between two mysterious intelligences – two black boxes – human and artificial. And it is already having profound consequences

This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 7 March 2024.For the past six months, the Guardian journalist Michael Safi has been trying to find out who is behind an AI company that creates deepfakes. These deepfakes are causing havoc around the world, with police and lawmakers baffled about how to deal with them. And in trying to answer one question, he has been left with a bigger one: is AI going to make it impossible to sort fact from fiction?

This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 11 March 2024.When Eugenia Kuyda created Replika, the AI companion app, she had no idea it would be downloaded millions of times all around the world. The results were more powerful than she could ever have predicted. But so was the backlash

This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 14 March 2024.Two stories about the way artificial intelligence could make the world better – and is already doing so. In Montana, when Lee Johnson discovered his wife, Yokie, had cancer, he turned to AI – and was surprised by the answers he got. Meanwhile, in Massachusetts, Prof Regina Barzilay’s experience with cancer has led her to build an AI system that can detect the disease years before a human can

This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 18 March 2024.In January 2020, Robert Williams was arrested by Detroit police for a crime he had not committed. The officers were acting on a tipoff, but not from a witness or informant. In fact, not from a person at all

This week we are revisiting the Black Box series. This episode was first broadcast on 21 March 2024.For decades, Eliezer Yudkowsky has been trying to warn the world about the dangers of AI. And now people are finally listening to him. But is it too late?

Despite Dr Alex George’s recent experience of sobriety negatively affecting his sleep, alcohol remains a reliable way to disrupt your rest, in the long and short term.

Despite Dr Alex George's recent experience of sobriety negatively affecting his sleep, alcohol remains a reliable way to disrupt your rest, in the long and short term