Slovakia Today, English Language Current Affairs Programme from Slovak Radio

Are new technologies that automate repetitive tasks going to cause a social upheaval by putting large numbers of employees out of work? This is already happening in some fields, and Artificial Intelligence is threatening to make the problem much more widespread. I speak with Martin Spano, an AI enthusiast, about the social impact of his favourite technology. Is the government collecting more data about us than they actually need, and could this lead to a kind of "digital dictatorship"? IT security expert Pavol Luptak thinks so, and spends much of his time alerting people to the dangers involved and discussing possible strategies to deal with them.