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AI in Gaza: Live from Mexico City
This episode contains some descriptions of torture methods, automated human targeting by machines, and psychological warfare throughoutLast week Alix hosted a live sho...
Logging Off w/ Adele Walton
Adele Walton’s new book *Logging Off: The Human Cost of our Digital World* is out NOW — for this week’s episode Alix sat down with her to discuss the book, and what pu...
Short: Sam Altman’s World w/ Billy Perrigo
Sam Altman is doing another big infrastructure push with World (previously Worldcoin) — the universal human verification system.We had journalist Billy Perrigo on to c...
The Collective Intelligence Project w/ Divya Siddarth and Zarinah Agnew
Most of the time we interview people who say No to AI. In this interview, Georgia and Alix talk to two people who look at AI and ask How and For What. And lots of othe...
Net0++: Data Center Sprawl | NEW Research from The Maybe
We’re excited to finally share our report on data center expansion and resistance around the world. It’s been a labor of love, but also showcases the amazing work of m...
Net 0++: AI Thirst in a Water-Scarce World w/ Julie McCarthy
Last year, Elon Musk’s xAI built a data centre in Memphis in 19 days — and the local government only found out about it on the 20th day. How?Julie McCarthy and her tea...
Short: Open AI for...Countries? w/ Marietje Schaake
This is another Computer Says Maybe short, this time with Marietje Schaake (author of The Tech Coup), to discuss OpenAI’s recent announcement: they want to partner wit...
Short: What Just Happened to 23andMe? w/ Jenny Reardon
Personalised genotyping company 23andMe just went bankrupt — what’s gonna happen to all that genetic data?We brought back genomics professor Jenny Reardon to discuss t...
Terra Nullius: Who Owns the Skies? w/ Julia Powles
This is our second Terra Nullius episode. As a reminder this means ‘Nobody’s Land’ — an infamous legal fiction from the age of Empire. In this episode we ask: who owns...
Terra Nullius: Who Owns Outer Space? w/ Heather Allansdottir
This is our first in a series called Terra Nullius. Huh? It’s Latin for ‘Nobody’s Land’. We will be exploring how rules are made for contested territory. If a land bel...
How to (Actually) Keep Kids Safe Online w/ Kate Sim
Child safety is a fuzzy catch-all concept for our broader social anxieties that seems to be everywhere in our conversations about the internet. But child safety isn’t ...
Worker Power & Big Tech Bossmen w/ David Seligman
This week Alix interviewed David Seligman, Executive Director of Towards Justice, to tell us more about how big tech companies act brazenly as legal bullies to extract...
AI Can’t Fix This: Live in London
Last week Alix was in London to talk UK politics and broligarchy with four amazing guests:Martha Dark from Foxglove gave us the history and implications of the NHS/Pal...
Technology Nationalism in India w/ Divij Joshi
Amidst the scrambling of geopolitics, there is increasing conversation and momentum for the concept of tech sovereignty. It basically means that countries should build...
AI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & Society
Two years ago, we were told that ‘prompt engineer’ would be a real job — well, it’s not. Is generative AI actually going to replace and transform human labour, or is t...
Regulating Privacy in an AI Era w/ Carly Kind
This week Alix is speaking with her long-time friend and collaborator Carly Kind, who is now the privacy commissioner of Australia. Here’s something you may be embarra...
Dogwhistles: Networked Transphobia Online
This week producer Georgia joins Alix to discuss something huge that we’ve yet to go deep on: the prevalence of trans misogyny online. This episode is jam-packed with ...
VCs Are World Eaters w/ Catherine Bracy
This week Alix interviewed Catherine Bracy on her book World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalising the Economy. Support Catherine’s work and buy it NOW.Venture ...
Power Over Precision w/ Jenny Reardon
Alix’s conversation this week is with Jenny Reardon, who shares with us the history of genomics — and the absolutely mind-melting parallels it has with the trajectory ...
The Taiwan Bottleneck w/ Brian Chen
Do you ever wonder how semiconductors (AKA chips) get made? Or why most of them are made in Taiwan? Or what this means for geopolitics?Luckily, this is a podcast for n...
AI Safety’s Spiral of Urgency w/ Shazeda Ahmed
Are you tired of hearing the phrase ‘AI Safety’ and rolling your eyes? Do you also sometimes think… okay but what is technically wrong with advocating for ‘safer’ AI s...
Live Show: Paris Post-Mortem
Kapow! We just did our first ever LIVE SHOW. We barely had time to let the mics cool down before a bunch of you requested to have the recording on our pod feed so here...
Defying Datafication w/ Dr Abeba Birhane (PLUS: Paris AI Action Summit)
The Paris AI Action Summit is just around the corner! If you’re not going to be there, and you wish you were — we got you.We are streaming next week’s podcast LIVE fro...
DEI Season Finale: Part Two
This week Alix continues her conversation with Hanna McCloskey and Rubie Clarke from Fearless Futures and we take a whistle-stop tour of the past 5 years. We start in ...
DEI Season Finale: Part One
DEI is a nebulous field — if you’re not in it, it can be hard to know which tactics and methods are reasonable and effective… and which are a total waste of time. Or w...
DEI: the final season + Alex Kotran on the Future of Education
We have a special episode for you this week: we brought in Hanna Mccloskey and Rubie Clarke from Fearless Futures to talk about the recent announcement from Mark Zucke...
To be Seen and not Watched w/ Tawana Petty
Welcome back! Let us know what you think of the show and what you want to see more of in 2025 by writing in here, or rambling into a microphone here.In this episode Al...
Our learnings from 2024
We’re wrapped for the year, and will be back on the 10th of Jan. In the meantime, listen to Alix, Prathm, and Georgia discuss their biggest learnings from the pod this...
A $20bn Search Engine w/ Michelle Meagher
Google has finally been judged to be a monopoly by a federal court — while this was strikingly obvious already, what does this judgement mean? Is this too little too l...
The Age of Noise w/ Eryk Salvaggio
What happens if you ask a generative AI image model to show you what Picasso’s work would have looked like if he lived in Japan in the 16th century? Would it produce s...