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A curated playlist of the best new podcasts on technology. Powered by The Syllabus. (To see the articles, books, reports and videos that are also part of the Machinist, check out our site: the-syllabus.com)

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01:12:59

Property Pieties - Luce deLire on digital tyrants,...

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2025/05/08

Podcast: RiVAL RadioEpisode: Property Pieties - Luce deLire on digital tyrants, trans panics, and revolutionary hospitalitiesPub date: 2025-04-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode we talked with Luce about her latest work on digitalised tyranny. About how private property structures the terms of the contract and gives rise to ever more terms; how the far right are both breaking the rules and playing by the rules to break the

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01:05:15

Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace...

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2025/05/08

Podcast: Big Technology Podcast (LS 52 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace ShaoPub date: 2025-04-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGrace Shao is a Hong Kong-based writer and analyst, and author of AI Proem on Substack newsletter. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss China's rise in artificial intelligence, and whether (and how) it can be a global player. Tune in to hear how

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00:45:02

#90: Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology

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2025/04/25

Podcast: Critical Media Studies (LS 29 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: #90: Heidegger - The Question Concerning TechnologyPub date: 2025-04-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode Barry and Mike take a different approach to Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology. Rather than a traditional "what does all this mean" approach grounded in historical context, they look at the essay with a specific eye towards

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00:09:30

Inside the Chip-Making Machine the World Can’t Live...

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2025/04/13

Podcast: WSJ Tech News Briefing (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Inside the Chip-Making Machine the World Can’t Live WithoutPub date: 2025-03-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOur modern world depends on chips, and our most modern chips depend on complex machines that use a process called extreme ultraviolet lithography. All of these machines are made by one company: ASML. The WSJ’s Ben Cohen met one of the machine’s mechanics

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00:30:34

A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and...

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2025/04/09

Podcast: The Sunday Show (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and DemocracyPub date: 2025-03-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDr. Alondra Nelson holds the Harold F. Linder Chair and leads theScience, Technology, and Social Values Labat the Institute for Advanced Study, where she has served on the faculty since 2019. From 2021 to 2023, she was deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and

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00:55:19

AI Hype Enters Its Geopolitics Era w/ Timnit Gebru

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2025/03/24

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 57 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: AI Hype Enters Its Geopolitics Era w/ Timnit GebruPub date: 2025-03-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Timnit Gebru to discuss where the AI industry stands in 2025 as AI increasingly becomes a geopolitical football even as the big promises made by AI companies fail to materialize.Timnit Gebru is the founder and executive director of the

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01:18:45

Public, Private and DOGE - Hybrid Sovereignty with...

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2025/03/06

Podcast: The Anti-Dystopians (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Public, Private and DOGE - Hybrid Sovereignty with Swati SrivastavaPub date: 2025-02-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week, Alina Utrata talks to Swati Srivastava,an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. They discussed Swati’s work on hybrid

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00:26:49

On the Economics, Geopolitics and Technological...

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2025/03/01

Podcast: EconoFact Chats (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: On the Economics, Geopolitics and Technological Challenges of AIPub date: 2025-02-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationSince the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, improvements in large language models have continued at an impressive clip, driving a surge of investment in new models, developing new products based on them, and in constructing data centres and other

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00:42:48

AI and Public Services

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2025/02/20

Podcast: UCL Uncovering Politics (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: AI and Public ServicesPub date: 2025-02-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationArtificial intelligence is increasingly being touted as a game-changer across various sectors, including public services. But while AI presents significant opportunities for improving efficiency and effectiveness, concerns about fairness, equity, and past failures in public sector IT

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00:12:42

After DeepSeek: How China outsmarted America

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2025/02/14

Podcast: 7am (LS 61 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: After DeepSeek: How China outsmarted AmericaPub date: 2025-02-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe arrival of DeepSeek wiped more than $1 trillion off the value of America’s tech firms, topping the country from its unquestioned position at the forefront of the global AI race. The Chinese AI company also upstaged President Donald Trump’s announcement of the Stargate

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00:38:08

The impact of big tech on Brazilian politics with...

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2025/02/14

Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The impact of big tech on Brazilian politics with Marianna PoyaresPub date: 2025-01-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMarianna Poyares is a Fritz Fellow at Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology. She is a critical theorist working on the ethics of new technologies of migration and border enforcement. Trained as a philosopher and with a background in human rights

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00:28:52

The Environmental Inequity of AI

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2025/02/07

Podcast: Building Local Power (LS 40 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: The Environmental Inequity of AIPub date: 2024-12-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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00:47:09

Episode 2318: Mike Pepi on how to escape from the...

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2025/01/29

Podcast: Keen On (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 2318: Mike Pepi on how to escape from the digital dystopia of platform capitalismPub date: 2025-01-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIs it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s another anti tech book. In Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, digital activist Mike Pepi argues that major tech companies like Meta, Amazon, Tesla, and OpenAI are all driven by "platform

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00:29:08

Algorithms create a dull conformity — off and online

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2025/01/22

Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Algorithms create a dull conformity — off and onlinePub date: 2025-01-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAlgorithmic feeds are meant to personalise our online experiences, but increasingly they're flattening our culture and fostering a dull conformity, according to best-selling author Kyle Chayka. And the influence they exert on our lives is increasingly physical not just

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00:51:20

Live! Silicon Valley's Class War and the New...

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2025/01/15

Podcast: The Un-Diplomatic Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Live! Silicon Valley's Class War and the New Defense-Industrial Complex w/ Max Read | Ep. 215Pub date: 2025-01-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat is the role of crypto and AI in the new American oligarchy? What does it mean that Mark Zuckerberg has declared a re-embrace of "politics?" And what do Palantir, Anduril, and the new defense-industrial cartel have

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00:30:36

Big money, big tech: The new rules of the political...

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2025/01/09

Podcast: The Sunday Magazine (LS 50 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Big money, big tech: The new rules of the political playbookPub date: 2025-01-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAs tech giants end the year by cozying up to Donald Trump, and TikTok faces the possibility of demise - 2024's biggest tech stories expose growing power alliances and global rivals in our digital and geopolitical landscapes. Tech journalists Louise

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00:58:29

AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli

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2024/12/11

Podcast: The Verso Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo PasquinelliPub date: 2024-11-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week we have a special episode for you as part of our inter-season programming - an interview with Matteo Pasquinelli. Of course, we’re still working hard to bring you more roundtable discussions with our wonderful Verso authors in our upcoming fourth series of The

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01:11:35

"AI, Art and New Technology: Threat or Opportunity

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2024/12/11

Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: "AI, Art and New Technology: Threat or OpportunityPub date: 2024-12-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationExplore the intersection of art, artificial intelligence, and new technology. Through the diverse perspectives of three incredible artists, we will delve into unique opportunities that new technology presents for creative expression, activism, and

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00:04:05

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?

The Machinist ·

2024/11/26

Podcast: Tech News Radio: Cutting-Edge UpdatesEpisode: Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?Pub date: 2024-11-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationhttps://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-4-is-silicon-valley-libertarianWIRED takes a look at one of Silicon Valley’s most influential ideologies. Powered by

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01:04:42

Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency w/ Brian...

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2024/11/20

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency w/ Brian MerchantPub date: 2024-11-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the fallout from the US election, what it means for the tech industry, and more importantly, what it might mean for all of us. They also celebrate the show hitting 250 episodes!Brian Merchant is a longtime

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