Oprah Winfrey To Host ‘AI And The Future Of Us’ ABC Special With Open AI CEO Sam Altman, Bill Gates, FBI Director Christopher Wray, More

Denise Petski
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Oprah Winfrey is taking a deep dive into AI with a new hourlong special AI and the Future of Us, set to air Thursday, September 12 at 8 p.m. on ABC and streaming next day on Hulu.

The special “provides a serious, entertaining and meaningful base for every viewer to understand AI, and empowers everyone to be a part of one of the most important global conversations of the 21st century,” according to the official logline.

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The special will include interviews with Open AI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft co-founder and chair of the Gates Foundation Bill Gates, YouTube creator and technologist Marques Brownlee, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, co-founders of Center for Humane Technology, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson.

Altman “will explain how AI works in layman’s terms and discusses the immense personal responsibility that must be borne by the executives of AI companies. Gates will lay out the AI revolution coming in science, health and education, and warns of the once-in-a-century type of impact AI may have on the job market. Brownlee will walk Winfrey through mind-blowing demonstrations of AI’s capabilities,” according to the release.

Additionally, Harris and Raskin “will walk Winfrey through the emerging risks posed by powerful and superintelligent AI — sounding the alarm about the need to confront those risks now. Wray reveals the terrifying ways criminals and foreign adversaries are using AI, and Robinson reflects on AI’s threat to human values and the ways in which humans might resist the convenience of AI.”

Directed by Jaime Eliezer Karas, AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special is produced by Harpo Productions and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey, Carla Gardini and Backstory Partners’ Josh Tyrangiel.

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