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From the New York Times, I'm Tracy Mumford with a special edition of The Headlines.
It's a you ask, we try to answer episode on all things AI.
This is a great technology and it has lots of positive use.
So let's just start with that.
AI is an existential threat to humanity.
We've got to make sure that we don't lose our edge in the global competition on this with China.
With the debates raging and developments coming fast and furious,
we put out a call for your questions on the technology.
And now we brought in two of my colleagues who cover AI for answers.
We will get to the whole, are the robots going to take over in a minute?
But to start, we got a lot of questions about how AI seems to have become
a part of everyday life right now, whether we like it or not.
Here to field those is Mike Isaac, who's reported on Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Hey, Mike.
Hi, thanks for having me.