The good and the bad of an augmented future, plus plummeting trust in AI

Mark Billinghurst is a professor at the University of Auckland’s bioengineering institute and director of the empathic computing laboratory at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. In our feature interview he paints a mixed future for mixed reality tech. And Ben and Peter talk about a raft of new research showing that Kiwis trust in AI is lower than ever, and the increasing pressure for regulation. Reading list Subscribe on iHeart Radio or wherever you get podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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