LISTENING IN
How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial IntelligenceBeginning with post-WW2 monitoring devices, Listening In traces an arc through the Cold War era into the present day in which state and commercial spyware can record our calls, copy messages and secretly film us. It subsequently moves into the near future where AI-assisted technologies can listen to things we have not yet said as well as digitally simulate and record our voices after we have died.
In this book reading and Q&A, Matt Williams (Curator of Public Programmes, Camden Arts Centre) speaks with the book’s authors about AI’s formative history in espionage and military intelligence contexts and possible evidence its end in the its birth...
Authors:
Prof. Toby Heys (AUDINT, SODA), Dr. David Jackson (SODA), Marsha Courneya (Birkbeck, University of London)