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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...
The Happy Few: Open Source AI (part two)
In part two of our episode on open source AI, we delve deeper into we can use openness and participation for sustainable AI governance. It’s clear that everyone agrees...
The Happy Few: Open Source AI (part one)
In the context of AI, what do we mean when we say ‘open source’? An AI model is not something you can straightforwardly open up like a piece of software; there are hug...
Algorithmically cutting benefits w/ Kevin De Liban
This week Alix was joined by Kevin De Liban, who just launched Techntonic Justice, an organisation designed to support and fight for those harmed by AI systems.In this...
Election Debrief
This week we’re wallowing in post-election catharsis: Alix and Prathm process the result together, and discuss the implications this administration has for technology ...
US Election Special w/ Spencer Overton
For this pre-election special, Prathm spoke with law professor Spencer Overton about how this election has — and hasn’t — be impacted by AI systems. Misinformation and...
Net 0 ++: Reporting on AI’s climate injustices w/ Karen Hao
For our final episode in this series on the environment, Alix interviewed Karen Hao on how tough it is to report on environmental impacts of AI.The conversation focuss...
Net 0++: Concrete arguments for AI
In our third episode about AI & the environment, Alix interviewed Sherif Elsayed-Ali, who’s been working on using AI to reduce the carbon emissions of concrete. Yes, t...
Net 0++: Big Dirty Data Centres
This week we are continuing our AI & Environment series with an episode about a key piece of AI infrastructure: data centres. With us this week are Boxi Wu and Jenna R...
Net 0++: Microsoft’s greenwashing w/ Holly Alpine
This week we’re kicking off a series about AI & the environment. We’re starting with Holly Alpine, who just recently left Microsoft after starting and growing an inter...
Chasing Away Sidewalk Labs w/ Bianca Wylie
In 2017 Google’s urban planning arm Sidewalk Labs came into Toronto and said “we’re going to turn this into a smart city”.Our guest Bianca Wylie was one of the people ...
Will Newsom Veto the AI Safety Bill? w/ Teri Olle
What if we could have a public library for compute? But is… more compute really what we want right now?This week Alix interviewed Teri Olle from the Economic Security ...
The stories we tell ourselves about AI
Applications for our second cohort of Media Mastery for New AI Protagonists are now open! Join this 5-week program to level up your media impact alongside a dynamic co...
Bridging The Divide w/ Issie Lapowsky
There are oceans of research papers digging into the various harms of online platforms. Researchers are asking urgent questions such as how hate speech and misinformat...
Why was the CEO of Telegram just arrested? w/ Mallory Knodel
Last week, CEO of Telegram Pavel Durov landed in France and was immediately detained. The details of his arrest are still emerging; he is being charged for being compl...
Exhibit X: What did we learn?
That’s the END of Exhibit X folks; if you’ve been following along, congratulations on choosing to become smarter. If not that’s okay, consider this episode a delicious...
Exhibit X: The Community
What makes an expert witness? How does a socio-technical researcher become one? Now that we’re the end of this miniseries, we might finally be ready to answer these qu...
Exhibit X: The Courts
Imagine: something horrible has happened and the only evidence you have is a video posted online. Can you submit it into evidence in court? Well, it’s complicated.In p...
Exhibit X: The Litigators
Often it feels as though the cases and lawsuits brought against big tech firms are continuously piling up, but there never seems to be any resulting justice or resolut...
Exhibit X: The Whistleblower
In part 2 of Exhibit X, Alix interviewed Frances Haugen, who In 2021 blew the whistle on Meta; they were sitting on the knowledge that their products were harmful to k...