Podcast: Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: A US-EU Trade War?Pub date: 2023-04-05Many countries have expressed concern over a number of subsidies passed by the Biden Administration mainly targeting green energy. In this episode we explore why some European countries view American subsidies as a provocation, why they are pursuing competing subsidies, and how this may affect the relationship between the United States and its European allies. To discuss

Podcast: Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: A US-EU Trade War?Pub date: 2023-04-05Many countries have expressed concern over a number of subsidies passed by the Biden Administration mainly targeting green energy. In this episode we explore why some European countries view American subsidies as a provocation, why they are pursuing competing subsidies, and how this may affect the relationship between the United States and its European allies. To discuss

Podcast: The Real Story (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Can we control Artificial Intelligence?Pub date: 2023-04-07Last month a company in San Francisco called OpenAi released an artificial intelligence system called GPT-4 - a successor to its hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. The latest version can respond to images, write captions and descriptions - processing up to 25,000 words at a time. Researchers claim GPT-4 shows “sparks of artificial general intelligence” - in other words

Podcast: The Real Story (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Can we control Artificial Intelligence?Pub date: 2023-04-07Last month a company in San Francisco called OpenAi released an artificial intelligence system called GPT-4 - a successor to its hugely popular AI chatbot ChatGPT. The latest version can respond to images, write captions and descriptions - processing up to 25,000 words at a time. Researchers claim GPT-4 shows “sparks of artificial general intelligence” - in other words

Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Samuel Woolley on Bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital PropagandaPub date: 2023-03-28One of the things that we see happening online is sort of a democratization of propaganda.Samuel WoolleyBecome a Patron!Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.Samuel Woolley is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and

Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Samuel Woolley on Bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital PropagandaPub date: 2023-03-28One of the things that we see happening online is sort of a democratization of propaganda.Samuel WoolleyBecome a Patron!Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox.A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.Samuel Woolley is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and

Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: 230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence ThinksPub date: 2023-03-20Welcome to another episode of Sean Carroll's Mindscape. Today, we're joined by Raphaël Millière, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at Columbia University. We'll be exploring the fascinating topic of how artificial intelligence thinks and processes information. As AI becomes

Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: 230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence ThinksPub date: 2023-03-20Welcome to another episode of Sean Carroll's Mindscape. Today, we're joined by Raphaël Millière, a philosopher and cognitive scientist at Columbia University. We'll be exploring the fascinating topic of how artificial intelligence thinks and processes information. As AI becomes

Podcast: KQED's Forum (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Silicon Valley Bank Failure Roils Tech and Finance IndustriesPub date: 2023-03-14After experiencing a classic bank run with depositors withdrawing $42 billion in one day, Silicon Valley Bank was shut down by federal regulators on Friday. For many startups, SVB was the bank of choice, and its closure has roiled the tech industry. While federal regulators announced on Monday that 100% of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits would be

Podcast: KQED's Forum (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Silicon Valley Bank Failure Roils Tech and Finance IndustriesPub date: 2023-03-14After experiencing a classic bank run with depositors withdrawing $42 billion in one day, Silicon Valley Bank was shut down by federal regulators on Friday. For many startups, SVB was the bank of choice, and its closure has roiled the tech industry. While federal regulators announced on Monday that 100% of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits would be

Podcast: The Performance Audit ReportEpisode: 24 | Cathy O'Neil, Algorithm Auditor, Author of WMathDPub date: 2023-02-28Our guest is Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy.Cathy joined us to discuss critical aspects for auditors to consider, including:The human element: why understanding 'for whom an algorithm might fail' is more important than the detailed technical design of an algorithm.Algorithm testing: the

Podcast: Discourse ZAEpisode: Protopia, Not UtopiaPub date: 2023-03-16Bronwyn Williams & Monika Bielskyte | The Small Print In this episode, Bronwyn speaks to futurist Monika Bielskyte. They talk about Monika’s latest project, “Protopia Futures”, which rejects the false binary of dystopian and utopian visions, and is based on principles of plurality, creativity, and the evolution of values. They also discuss the issues of gatekeeping in the futurist space, and some of the problems with the

Podcast: The Performance Audit ReportEpisode: 24 | Cathy O'Neil, Algorithm Auditor, Author of WMathDPub date: 2023-02-28Our guest is Cathy O'Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy.Cathy joined us to discuss critical aspects for auditors to consider, including:The human element: why understanding 'for whom an algorithm might fail' is more important than the detailed technical design of an algorithm.Algorithm testing: the

Podcast: Discourse ZAEpisode: Protopia, Not UtopiaPub date: 2023-03-16Bronwyn Williams & Monika Bielskyte | The Small Print In this episode, Bronwyn speaks to futurist Monika Bielskyte. They talk about Monika’s latest project, “Protopia Futures”, which rejects the false binary of dystopian and utopian visions, and is based on principles of plurality, creativity, and the evolution of values. They also discuss the issues of gatekeeping in the futurist space, and some of the problems with the

Podcast: On the Media (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Who Profits?Pub date: 2023-02-24The Supreme Court heard two cases this week that could upend Silicon Valley. On this week’s On The Media, a look at the fragile law holding the modern internet together. Plus, how a century-long PR campaign taught Americans to love the free market and loathe their own government. 1. Emily Birnbaum [@birnbaum_e], tech lobbying reporter with Bloomberg, Mark Joseph Stern [@mjs_DC], senior writer at

Podcast: Future Histories (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: S02E41 - Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic GovernmentalityPub date: 2023-03-05Future Histories LIVE The interview with Antoinette Rouvroy is part of the format “Future Histories LIVE”. At irregular intervals, individual episodes are recorded live in front of an audience. This episode of Future Histories was recorded on December 2nd, 2022 in Vienna at Part 1 of the Political Cybernetics Workshop Series “Biological Life and

Podcast: On the Media (LS 72 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Who Profits?Pub date: 2023-02-24The Supreme Court heard two cases this week that could upend Silicon Valley. On this week’s On The Media, a look at the fragile law holding the modern internet together. Plus, how a century-long PR campaign taught Americans to love the free market and loathe their own government. 1. Emily Birnbaum [@birnbaum_e], tech lobbying reporter with Bloomberg, Mark Joseph Stern [@mjs_DC], senior writer at

Podcast: Future Histories (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: S02E41 - Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic GovernmentalityPub date: 2023-03-05Future Histories LIVE The interview with Antoinette Rouvroy is part of the format “Future Histories LIVE”. At irregular intervals, individual episodes are recorded live in front of an audience. This episode of Future Histories was recorded on December 2nd, 2022 in Vienna at Part 1 of the Political Cybernetics Workshop Series “Biological Life and

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 47 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: 236. Butterflies on History’s Collage (ft. Malcolm Harris)Pub date: 2023-03-02We are joined by Malcolm Harris—author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World—to discuss his magisterial book on how a hellmouth in Northern California has, for the last two hundred years, been a vortex of power for capital. We discuss some of the lesser known people and products of Palo Alto—like Herbet Hoover and William

Podcast: The Digital Human (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: CuratePub date: 2023-02-27In recent months anxiety around what algorithms will do to the arts has become a hot topic. Art, Literature, Music, all are being generated by AI systems. Even we explored what these algorithms may do to how art is created - just one episode ago.But, we missed something. Algorithms are not just changing how we create art, they’ve been curating everything we see and hear online for years. But they