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The future is now. Artificial Intelligence already exists in smartphones, helps power social media algorithms, and is accessible through countless apps. AI has generated rappers with records deals and political attack ads.

But as AI gains mainstream attention, AI-powered software that helps landlords select tenants has been proven to discriminate against Black applicants and algorithms have misinterpreted healthcare data, resulting in fewer services for Black patients.

On this episode of Into America, Trymaine Lee speaks with Gelyn Watkins of Black in AI, to understand the implications of AI for Black America. Together, they test a popular app for accuracy and bias. And, Trymaine has a conversation with the AI version of himself. 

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• AI risks leading humanity to 'extinction,' experts warn
• Why artificial intelligence needs to be on your mind in 2023
• Behind the Power and Threat of A.I.

This week I am going to utterly ruin your festive mood!

My guest is Ross Jeffery – author of Juniper, Tome (for which he was Bram Stoker nominated) and numerous short stories. His work is grim, gritty, gory and other words beginning with G - but they are nothing compared to the sheer horror of his latest work, Only the Stains Remain.

Yeah, this is one of those special episodes in which I feel duty-bound to roll out the trigger warnings. Only the Stains Remain is about child abuse, and it pulls no punches. Feeling festive yet, Ho Ho Ho, etc. The novella is a savage revenge-trip of blood and guts in which awful things happen – but thankfully – often to awful people.

So, you’ve been warned. 

But also be reassured. Neither the conversation, nor Ross’s book goes into exploitative details – and we manage to talk about a surprising number of very jolly things - from why Ross is drawn to such extreme projects, why writing for shock alone never really works, what it was like to be Bram Stoker-ed out of the blue, and what the members of Ross’ church make of his writing.

It’s a mix of the horrific and the wholesome this week. Which could describe most of my Christmases. 

Enjoy 

Books discussed in this episode include:

• Boys in the Valley (2021), by Philip Fracassi
• The Girl Next Door (1989), by Jack Ketchum
• Haunted (2005), by Chuck Palahniuk
• Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (2021), by Eric LaRocca
• Ghoul n’ the Cape (2021), by Josh Malerman 

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A look at questions  the risen Lord and the angels  ask the women at the tome.

An eldritch abomination teaches us lessons about metaphor and perception. 

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