Week In Tech: Would You Rather Live in a World with No Privacy or No Crime?

Should LLMs monitor crime? This week, Oz tells us why the US pharmaceutical industry may have competition… and why we’ve yet to see a flood of new products from AI drug discovery companies. Then, Karah explains how a telecommunications company is feeding recordings of inmate phone calls into LLMs that can then monitor future calls for planned crimes. Also, the UK government wants to cross-reference CCTV footage with the passport photo database, there’s a new self-made female billionaire in town — the youngest yet — and the newest billion dollar company sells blueberries the size of golf balls. And then, on Chat and Me, a deep fake interview has international consequences. ADDITIONAL READING: Art Basel show by Beeple has realistic Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg robot dogs pooping NFTs | Page Six • Why is AI struggling to discover new drugs? | Financial Times • Will the next blockbuster drug come from China? | Financial Times • An AI model trained on prison phone calls now looks for planned crimes in those calls | MIT Technology Review • Live facial recognition cameras planned for every town centre | Telegraph Kalshi’s Cofounder Is Now World’s Youngest Self-Made Woman Billionaire | Forbes • Ray Dalio is backing a $1 billion blueberry unicorn that sells berries nearly the size of golf balls | Fortune See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.