Internet Extremism with Lochlan Bloom

Software Engineering Daily

• Episode: Internet Extremism with Lochlan Bloom
• Website: Software Engineering Daily
• Feed URL: http://softwareengineeringdaily.com/feed/podcast
• Duration: 01:00:06
• Published: 2017-08-25 11:00

Religious extremists use technology to recruit vulnerable individuals to a violent cause. Google is developing ways to combat this extremism through its platforms, namely YouTube. When a user looks for inflammatory religious or supremacist content, YouTube’s “Redirect Method” instead sends those users toward anti-terrorist videos. Google’s fight against extremism compelled writer Lochlan Bloom to write an article called “The Coming Battle: AI, Extremism, and the New War of Ideas.” Lochlan

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