Four Corners investigates the global AI race and its regulatory challenges
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This Four Corners investigative report examines the global AI race, focusing on how powerful technology companies are investing heavily in AI systems while governments and communities struggle to keep pace with regulation and oversight. Reporter Steve Cannane explores both the promised benefits of AI—such as curing disease and transforming productivity—and the potential risks of unchecked development. The investigation spans the United States and Australia, highlighting the competitive dynamics between tech giants building increasingly powerful AI systems.
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· 3 pulledArtificial intelligence is already changing how we live and work, while being sold as the technology that could cure disease, transform productivity and solve some of the world's biggest problems.
Four Corners reporter Steve Cannane investigates the race to build ever more powerful AI systems and asks whether it is moving faster than governments and communities can keep up with.
The program goes inside the global battle between the world's most powerful technology companies as they spend huge amounts of money building systems some say could one day outpace human control.
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