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Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world.

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.

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Tech Life: How to make sure the whole world benefits from AI

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How to make sure the whole world benefits from AI

04/04/2023 GMT

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Are some countries and languages being cut out of the AI revolution?

Tech veteran Martha Lane Fox tells us of her hopes and fears about AI. Also, the app that’s a financial lifeline in rural India, and how the future of food is being shaped.

Martha Lane Fox reflects on her 30 years in tech, including her front row seat in Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, how she remains one of very few high profile women in the industry, and why we need to make sure the whole world shapes the debate on AI. 

Chenai Chair, from the Mozilla Foundation, joins us from Zimbabwe to explain the work they are doing to make sure minority languages are included in digital services. 

India business correspondent Nikhil Inamdar tells us about his experience seeing an app which is helping people in poor areas claim vital welfare payments. And Spencer Kelly, from our sister programme, Click, tells us what he found out about the future of food in his trip to the markets and laboratories of Singapore.

(Photo: Martha Lane Fox (L) and Shiona McCallum (R), in London)

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