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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...
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...