Watch: The Inequalities AI Is Creating – and Deepening – Around the World

In her new book Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI, Madhumita Murgia digs into the different ways in which artificial intelligence is already impacting everyday lives in deep and often problematic ways – from the creation of pornographic deepfakes to the use of algorithms as policing tools that reinforce existing biases and lead to more over-policing.

In conversation with The Wire’s Jahnavi Sen, Murgia, the AI Editor at Financial Times, explains what she found during her research, focused on the lives of individuals living far away from Silicon Valley. She talks about what has gone wrong, why she still believes AI can be harnessed for good, and how that can happen.