Disney has announced details on a brand-new special featuring Oprah Winfrey, where she will explore the profound impact of artificial intelligence on people’s daily lives, demystifying the technology and empowering viewers to understand and navigate the rapidly evolving AI future.

The special features Winfrey’s exclusive interviews with some of the most important and powerful people in AI including the following:

• Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, will explain how AI works in layman’s terms and discusses the immense personal responsibility that must be borne by the executives of AI companies.
• Microsoft Co-Founder and Chair of the Gates FoundationBill Gates will lay out the AI revolution coming in science, health and education, and warns of the once-in-a-century type of impact AI may have on the job market.
• YouTube creator and technologist Marques Brownlee will walk Winfrey through mind-blowing demonstrations of AI’s capabilities.
• Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, co-founders of Center for Humane Technology, walk Winfrey through the emerging risks posed by powerful and superintelligent AI — sounding the alarm about the need to confront those risks now.
• FBI Director Christopher Wray reveals the terrifying ways criminals and foreign adversaries are using AI.
• Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson reflects on AI’s threat to human values and the ways in which humans might resist the convenience of AI.

“AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special” provides a serious, entertaining and meaningful base for every viewer to understand AI, and empowers everyone to be a part of one of the most important global conversations of the 21st century.

“AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special” is produced by Harpo Productions, executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Backstory Partners’ Josh Tyrangiel.

This new one-hour primetime event, “AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special,” will air on ABC on Thursday 12th September 2024 at 8:00-9:03 p.m. EDT, and it will be available the next day on Hulu and Hulu On Disney+.

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Roger Palmer

Roger has been a Disney fan since he was a kid and this interest has grown over the years. He has visited Disney Parks around the globe and has a vast collection of Disney movies and collectibles. He is the owner of What's On Disney Plus & DisKingdom. Email: Roger@WhatsOnDisneyPlus.com Twitter: Twitter.com/RogPalmerUK Facebook: Facebook.com/rogpalmeruk

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