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Will A.I. Benefit EVERYONE?
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January 28, 2026
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1:41:52Now PlayingA Soho Forum debate on artificial intelligence's potential to deliver widespread societal benefits
Technology authors Perry Metzger and Brian Merchant debate the resolution, "Artificial Intelligence will provide enormous net benefits to nearly every member of society."
Metzger is taking the affirmative. He is the co-founder and and chairman of the board of Alliance for the Future, and the author of science comic Computers: How Digital Hardware Works.
Merchant is taking the negative. He is a reporter in residence at the AI Now Institute. He's also the author of two books, The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone and Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech.
The debate is moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.
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