Today's show is the second of a two-part series on Artificial Intelligence, focusing on some downsides of the technology. We're exploring why some programmers are concerned about computers developing a mind of their own -- and what can be done to prevent that. AI's impacts on the job market and the challenges posed by deepfakes are today's other topics. This show follows one that examined some upsides of AI.
This news quiz covers topics featured throughout the week on The World from A to Z:
1. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in attacks on his country last weekend, was the supreme leader of what Middle Eastern nation?
2. What two countries launched the attacks on the answer to question 1, leading to counterattacks by it and mixed reactions from other nations?
3. Name the African-American teenager who refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus to a white person on March 2, 1955 – nine months before Rosa Parks took the same action.
4. Tuesday’s show revealed a new type of extendable robot arm that could help remove contaminated material from the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in what country?
5. Orthorexia, a proposed disorder covered on Tuesday’s show, is characterized as an unhealthy obsession with doing what?
6. In order to override a U.S. presidential veto – an action taken for the first time on March 3, 1845 – a bill must be passed by what portion of both the Senate and House of Representatives?
7. According to new research featured on Wednesday’s show, what feature of an elephant’s trunk is so sensitive that it gives the animal heightened awareness of the objects around it?
8. What is the nickname for the kind of moon that’s visible during a total lunar eclipse, which occurred earlier this week and caused the moon to take on a reddish hue?
9. What Amendment to the U.S. Constitution established January 20 as Inauguration Day, leaving President Franklin D. Roosevelt the last leader to be inaugurated on March 4?
10. In what Asian country, whose current government was formed in 1949, are many young people increasingly turning to AI “smart pets” for companionship?
