The fourth Digital Reality podcast season featured 13 episodes, turning out to be one of the most packed in terms of issues and discussions, with all episodes livestreamed for 1,943 minutes.
The participants focused on AI, digital regulation, data privacy, infrastructure risks, and the struggle for digital sovereignty. They discussed AI technologies in medicine, education, public administration and science, the role of neural networks in culture and journalism, as well as data leaks, global cloud mishaps, the transformation of messengers, the development of the satellite internet, and ramped-up pressure by regulators regarding tech giants. They prioritized ethics, confidence in technologies, and the limits of automation in spheres where the cost of potential errors is especially high.
The podcast season involved 17 experts in various fields, including researchers of the internet, lawyers, AI and big data experts, journalists, analysts, and representatives of the academic community and the IT industry.
The fourth season once again confirmed that even the most complicated and highly specialized issues in the field of digital policies and technologies are rather popular with broad audiences, if examined from various angles during live dialogue. Digital Reality continues to feature extensive conversations on how the internet is changing, and how this process impacts us.