Rated, Ranked, Rejected: Inside the World of AI Social Scoring

04/06/25 • 20 min

Imagine living life under constant evaluation—your behaviours, choices, and even friendships scrutinised and scored by artificial intelligence. Sounds dystopian, doesn’t it? Well, it’s already here.

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In this episode of A Beginner’s Guide to AI, Professor Gephardt pulls back the curtain on AI-driven social scoring systems. Learn how algorithms quietly judge our worthiness, shaping our opportunities and even our rights.

We’ll unpack China’s controversial Social Credit System, highlight ethical dilemmas around privacy and discrimination, and discover how the EU is fighting to protect fundamental human rights.

And don’t worry—we've got a tasty cake metaphor to make things crystal clear!

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A message from our Sponsor :

Sensay creates AI-powered digital replicas to preserve and share individual and organizational knowledge, turning it into scalable, sustainable, and autonomous wisdom.

Visit Sensay at ⁠⁠Sensay.io⁠⁠

And listen to Dan, Sensay's CEO and founder, ⁠⁠in this episode⁠⁠!

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We’ll unpack China’s controversial Social Credit System, highlight ethical dilemmas around privacy and discrimination, and discover how the EU is fighting to protect fundamental human rights.

And don’t worry—we've got a tasty cake metaphor to make things crystal clear!

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Want to get in contact? Write me an email: [email protected]

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Music credit: "Modern Situations" by Unicorn Heads

Previous Episode

How AI is Revolutionizing Coding: From Programmer to Manager - The Grigorij Dudnik Interview

Do we still need programmers in the age of AI? In this episode, I sit down with Grigorij Dudnik, creator of Clean Coder AI —an agent-based AI framework that aims to transform how we build software.

We dive deep into the future of programming, where AI agents take over the repetitive tasks and senior developers act more like managers than coders. Grigorij breaks down how his open-source tool works, how it's already being used in real-world web applications, and why separating AI agent roles (planner, coder, manager) actually boosts performance—just like in human teams.

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Sensay creates AI-powered digital replicas to preserve and share individual and organizational knowledge, turning it into scalable, sustainable, and autonomous wisdom.

Visit Sensay at ⁠Sensay.io⁠

And listen to Dan, Sensay's CEO and founder, ⁠in this episode⁠!

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We also talk about the startup that inspired it all: a heartfelt project to preserve memories of loved ones. Plus, there's some philosophical reflection on AI's potential risks—not in a Terminator way, but in a "we're all getting too lazy" kind of way. And yes, there’s even a robot powered by a Raspberry Pi that makes moral decisions. This episode is packed with insights, stories, and some wild but real visions of the near future.

Get in contact with Grigorij, ask him anything about AI and programming, on LinkedIn 🚀

And look at the Clean Coder AI on GitHub - don't forget to rate the project 🤖

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