Tonight on ABC Oprah Winfrey will tackle the vast topic of artificial intelligence in an hour-long special tonight on ABC. Her new show, “AI and Our Future: An Oprah Winfrey Special,” features OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and technology commentator Marques Brownlee.
“The reason why I wanted to do this special is because I’m right where most of you all are with AI,” Winfrey said in an Instagram Reel posted earlier this week. “You hear it all the time and you hear it’s going to change our lives, and we are aware of it on our phones and you’re aware of it in your cars and you’re aware of it for certain areas of your life, but what is really coming? What is happening with AI?”
In addition to people working in or around the AI industry, the show will also feature FBI Director Christopher Wray, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson, and co-founder of the Center for Humanitarian Technology. Guests are likely to discuss the risks that AI poses to developers and humans in general.
The AI special is scheduled to air on Thursday, September 12 at 8pm.
Critics have already criticized the show’s guest list, some saying it will skew the content in favor of promoting AI rather than addressing its dangers.