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Podcast: Speaking Out of Place (LS 36 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Abolishing Silicon Valley, Building the Commons--A Different Way to Spend Your Life: A Conversation with Wendy LiuPub date: 2025-07-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEver since its publication, Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism has proven to be more urgent and insightful. Today I talk with author Wendy Liu about how developments like AI and LLM, further erosions of intellectual property, and increased invasions of privacy make the case for abolishing Silicon Valley even more important. We talk about how abolition is critical at a time when more and more the private sector has come to eviscerate the public good. Turning to the genocide in Gaza, we discuss the ways Capital has enlisted technology in deadly and horrific manners. We end with a meditation on the commons and how one can live with fewer commodities and find value in common projects to make life more valuable and worthwhile outside of the logic of the market.Wendy Liu is the author of Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism, a memoir/manifesto about the tech industry from the perspective of a former believer. She lives in San Francisco and is working on a novel.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from David Palumbo-Liu , which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Prospect Podcast (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Laura Bates: AI is reinventing sexismPub date: 2025-07-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week, writer and activist Laura Bates joins Ellen and Alona to discuss her latest book The New Age of Sexism. Best known for founding the Everyday Sexism project in 2012, Laura has spent more than a decade documenting the realities of gender-based discrimination. In her new book, she turns her attention to the digital world—where artificial intelligence is giving rise to disturbing new forms of misogyny.  Laura explains how technologies like deepfakes and AI chatbots are being weaponised against women, what her experiences of raising awareness in schools have taught her about how parents and teachers can better protect children, and why governments and tech companies are failing to act.  Plus, Ellen and Alona discuss this week’s “banger” or “dud”. This episode contains material that some listeners may find upsetting. ‘The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny’ is out now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Prospect Magazine, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Tech Policy Press Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Interrogating Tech Power and Democratic CrisisPub date: 2025-06-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIf you’ve been reading Tech Policy Press closely over the last three weeks, you may have come across one or more posts from collaboration with Data & Society called “Ideologies of Control: A Series on Tech Power and Democratic Crisis.” The articles in the series examine how powerful tech billionaires and authoritarian leaders and thinkers are leveraging AI and digital infrastructure to advance anti-democratic agendas, consolidate control, and reshape society in ways that threaten privacy, labor rights, environmental sustainability, and democratic governance. For this episode, Justin Hendrix spoke to four of the authors who made contributions to the series, including:Jacob Metcalf, program director of the AI On the Ground Initiative at Data & Society;Tamara Kneese, program director of the Climate, Technology and Justice program at Data & Society;Reem Suleiman, outgoing US advocacy lead at the Mozilla Foundation and member of the city of Oakland's Privacy Advisory Commission; and Kevin De Liban, founder of TechTonic Justice.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tech Policy Press, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Chatbots Are Repeating Social Media’s Harms w/ Nitasha TikuPub date: 2025-06-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Nitasha Tiku to discuss how AI companies are preying on users to drive engagement and how that’s repeating many of the problems we’re belatedly trying to address with social media companies at an accelerated pace.Nitasha Tiku is a technology reporter at the Washington Post.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.Also mentioned in this episode: Nitasha wrote about how chatbots are messing with people’s minds. Paris wrote about Mark Zuckerberg’s comments about people needing AI friends. AI companies are facing ongoing lawsuits over harmful content. Support the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paris Marx, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Brazil's Battle to Rein In Big Tech w/ Laís MartinsPub date: 2025-06-19Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Laís Martins to discuss the recent enforcement measures against tech companies like X and Rumble in Brazil, how the country is grappling with the overreach of US tech companies, and the wider discussion about tech policy in Brazil.Laís Martins is a technology reporter at The Intercept Brasil.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson.Also mentioned in this episode: Laís has reported on Rumble's fight against the Brazilian Supreme Court as well as the decisions the Brazilian government is making to welcome AI data centers. Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff was spied on by US intelligence services. The Brazilian government has long used and supported open source software. Support the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paris Marx, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Tech Policy Press Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: Technology, Labor Rights, and Political Power in Kenya and Across AfricaPub date: 2025-06-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Justin Hendrix speaks with Nerima Wako-Ojiwa, director of Siasa Place, and Odanga Madung, a tech and society researcher and journalist, about the intersection of technology, labor rights, and political power in Kenya and across Africa. The conversation explores the ongoing struggles of content moderators and AI data annotators, who face exploitative working conditions while performing essential labor for major tech companies; the failure of platforms fail to address harmful biases and disinformation that particularly affect African contexts; the ways in which governments increasingly use platform failures as justification for internet censorship and surveillance; and the promise of youth and labor movements that point to a more just and democratic future.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tech Policy Press, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Rania Khalek Dispatches (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Gaza is Silicon Valley’s Beta Test for Global Repression, w/ Yasha LevinePub date: 2025-06-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe internet wasn’t made to set us free. It was designed to surveil, suppress, and control.On this episode of Dispatches, Rania Khalek speaks with journalist and author Yasha Levine to expose how Big Tech became the digital arm of empire.From AI-generated kill lists in Gaza to Silicon Valley billionaires coding the future of authoritarianism, this is techno-fascism in real time.Elon Musk works with the Pentagon. Peter Thiel builds tools for ICE. Mark Zuckerberg scrubs dissent while currying favor with Trump.Gaza isn’t an exception, it’s a prototype. A beta test for how to rule the world through algorithm, surveillance, and automation.Watch the full episode and support the show at:🔥 https://www.patreon.com/BreakthroughNews The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rania Khalek, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Dystopia Now (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: The Tech Bro Zone with Quinn SlobodianPub date: 2025-05-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationTo join our group chat or become a subscriber, go here: https://www.patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow This week we chatted with historian Quinn Slobodian, a professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. His books, which have been translated into ten languages, include, most recently, Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right and Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy. Intro Anthropic: AI deception risk Patreon: Join Community Chats Quinn Slobodian Tech bros, Trump, and the Silicon Valley nation-state – The Guardian The Bastards of Neoliberalism – New Statesman Elon Musk and the Demography Agenda – New Statesman Crack-Up Capitalism Interview – Jacobin The Bastards of Neoliberalism – New Statesman The Inhuman Future of Intelligence – The Guardian Other Balaji's Private Island School – TechCrunch The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kate Willett and Emile Torres, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 405. AI is the Demon God of Capital (ft. Hagen Blix)Pub date: 2025-05-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe chat with linguist and cognitive scientist Hagen Blix about his new book Why We Fear AI (co-authored with computer scientist Ingeborg Glimmer) about how the technical qualities of AI – especially LLM chatbots – take the alienation (and seemingly alien power) of capital to the next level. What happens when the social logic of capital — which appears to be a motive force with no motivator — is channeled through generative technologies that appear to be texts with no author? People see an entity that must be feared and worshipped. ••• Why We Fear AI | Hagen Blix & Ingeborg Glimmer https://www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai ••• https://www.If A.I. Systems Become Conscious, Should They Have Rights? nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/ai-welfare-anthropic-claude.html ••• Marx’s Comments on James Mill http://marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/james-mill/ Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s new book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social)The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from This Machine Kills, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: New Books in Game StudiesEpisode: Peter Krapp, "Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation" (MIT Press, 2024)Pub date: 2025-05-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe're pleased to welcome Dr. Peter Krapp, the author of Computing Legacies: Digital Cultures of Simulation (MIT Press, 2024), to the New Books Network. In Computing Legacies, Peter Krapp explores a media history of simulation to excavate three salient aspects of digital culture. Firstly, he profiles simulation as cultural technique, enabling symbolic work and foregrounding hypothetical literacy. Secondly, he positions simulation as crucial for the preservation of cultural memory, where modeling, emulation, and serious play are constitutive in how we relate to our mediated history. And lastly, despite suggestions that we may already live in a simulation, he interrogates how simulation can serve as critique of the computer age. In tracing our digital heritage, Computing Legacies elucidates inflection points where quantitative data becomes tractable for qualitative evaluations: modeling epidemics for scientific study or entertainment, emulating older devices, turning numerical calculations into music, conducting espionage in virtual worlds, and gamifying higher education. Simulation, this book demonstrates, is pivotal not only to high-tech research and to archives, museums, and the preservation of digital culture but also to our understanding of what it is to live and work under the technical conditions of computing. Dr. Peter Krapp is a Professor of Film & Media Studies, English, and Music at UC-Irvine. Your host is Dr. Adam Kriesberg, Assistant Professor at the Simmons University School of Library and Information Science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from New Books Network, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Max Haiven (and company)Episode: From financialized capitalism to gamified fascismPub date: 2025-05-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOn 28 April 2025, Max Haiven presented an outline of his forthcoming book "The Player and the Played: Gamification, Financialization and (anti-)Fascism" at Brussels' Au JUS space. If fascism names a form of tyranny that incubates within capitalism and bears its' traces, what kind of 21st century fascism emerges from financialized capitalism? 1. Why do we feel trapped in an unwinnable game? 2. How can we think about fasicsm? 3. What is financialization? 4. What is gamification? 5. What is "derivative" and what is new about today's fascism? 6. How can we make sense of gamified fascist violence? 7. Why do fascist cheats succeed (and why is cheating so central to their rhetoric?) 8. What is fascist worldbuilding (and worldrazing)? 9. What is the antifascist game?The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The ReImagining Value Action Lab, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Max Haiven (and company)Episode: 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 game; and about the overall structure of desire across society and what it’d mean to exit the transsexual contract of libidinal intelligibility, towards a horizon of hospitality and indeterminacy, driven by joy. Luce deLire is a ship with eight sails and she lies down by the quay. As a philosopher, she publishes on the metaphysics of infinity and early modern philosophy but also on art, queer theory, anti-racism, postcolonialism, and political theory. In her performances, she embodies figures of the collective imaginary. She is currently an assistant professor at the department of philosophy at Humboldt University, Berlin. For more (including booking), see getaphilosopher.com and IG :@Luce_deLire Against the Fascist Game is the second season of The Exploits of Play, a podcast about games and capitalism. Join host Max Haiven and producer Faye Harvey as they interview game designers, critical theorists and grassroots activists struggling with games to understand, confront and abolish the rising threat of fascism in our times. We ask questions including: how is the far-right around the world using games as platforms for ideology, recruiting and violence, both close to home and around the world? How have vicious reactionary politics emerged from a form of capitalism where most people feel trapped in an unwinnable game? What do fascism and antifascism mean today? And what role, if any do play and games have in confronting the fascist threat and creating a new world? The Exploits of Play is a production of Weird Economies, a platform for exploring the intricacies and excesses of our economic imaginaries, in cooperation with RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The ReImagining Value Action Lab, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Big Technology Podcast (LS 54 · 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 China's AI startups are rapidly productizing cutting-edge tech, why it keeps developing open-source models, and why it's surging in robotics. We also cover AI agents like Manus, chip shortages, and the entrepreneurial resurgence transforming Chinese tech culture. Hit play for an essential conversation on China’s AI ambitions and their global implications.You can read more from Grace here: https://open.substack.com/pub/aiproem---Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice.For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnologyQuestions? Feedback? Write to: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alex Kantrowitz, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Critical Media Studies (LS 31 · TOP 5% 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 understanding what Heidegger can teach us about our current digital media culture and the essay's relevance for our interactions in the age of the internet and near total interconnection.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Michael Repici, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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 and got a rare, behind-the-scenes tour of a factory where one of them operates. He explains the nearly sci-fi tech behind EUV lithography and gives us a peek into the one tool responsible for all the tech in your life. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Wall Street Journal, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Tech Policy Press Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% 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 the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at 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 acting director and principal deputy director for science and society of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She was deeply involved in the Biden administration’s approach to artificial intelligence. She led the development of the White House “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” which informed President Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. To say the Trump administration has taken a different approach to AI and how to think about its role in government and in society would be an understatement. President Trump rescinded President Biden’s executive order and is at work developing a new approach to AI policy. At the Paris AI Action Summit in February, Vice President JD Vance promoted a vision of American dominance and challenged other nations that would seek to regulate American AI firms. And then there is DOGE, which is at work gutting federal agencies with the stated intent of replacing key government functions with AI systems and using AI to root out supposed fraud and waste.This week, Justin Hendrix had the chance to speak with Dr. Nelson about how she’s thinking about these phenomena and the work to be done in the years ahead to secure a more just, democratic, and sustainable future. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tech Policy Press, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · 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 Distributed AI Research Institute.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham.Also mentioned in this episode: Timnit wrote about the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies with Émile Torres. The Data Workers’ Inquiry allowed data workers to share their experiences in their workplaces. Support the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paris Marx, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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 sovereignty, private actors in global governance — and, yes, of course, Elon Musk. Listen to hear about why the classic distinctions between public and private power is much messier than we think, what discussions of sovereignty can tell us about corporate power, and what might be new about these new technology companies and algorithmic governance. For a complete reading list from the episode, check out the Anti-Dystopians substack at bit.ly/3kuGM5X.You can follow Alina Utrata on Bluesky at @alinau27.bsky.socialAll episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production of the show, subscribe to the newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5X.Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alina Utrata, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: EconoFact Chats (LS 32 · 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 infrastructure needed to run AI models. What will the economic landscape look like as artificial intelligence becomes more pervasive? What are the production, technological, and geo-political challenges facing artificial intelligence development? And will the technology live up to its promise of making life better? Chris Miller joins EconoFact Chats to discuss these issues. Chris is an Associate Professor of International History at the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He is also the author of 'Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology,' which won the Financial Times Book of the Year Award in 2022.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from EconoFact, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: UCL Uncovering Politics (LS 35 · TOP 3% 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 transformations loom large. And, of course, the idea of tech moguls like Elon Musk wielding immense influence over our daily lives is unsettling for many.So, what are the real opportunities AI offers for public services? What risks need to be managed? And how well are governments—particularly in the UK—rising to the challenge?In this episode, we dive into these questions with three expert guests who have recently published an article in The Political Quarterly on the subject:Helen Margetts – Professor of Society and the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and Director of the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute. Previously, she was Director of the School of Public Policy at UCL.Cosmina Dorobantu – Co-director of the Public Policy Programme at The Alan Turing Institute.Jonathan Bright – Head of Public Services and AI Safety at The Alan Turing Institute. Mentioned in this episode:Margetts, H., Dorobantu, C. and Bright, J. (2024), How to Build Progressive Public Services with Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The Political Quarterly.   UCL’s Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy offers a uniquely stimulating environment for the study of all fields of politics, including international relations, political theory, human rights, public policy-making and administration. The Department is recognised for its world-class research and policy impact, ranking among the top departments in the UK on both the 2021 Research Excellence Framework and the latest Guardian rankings.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from UCL Political Science, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: 7am (LS 62 · 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 Project – a $500 billion AI initiative. The fact that a relatively small disruptor like DeepSeek could cause such damage raises serious questions about everything Silicon Valley wants us to believe about artificial intelligence. Today, managing editor of The Saturday Paper Emily Barrett on the DeepSeek crash, and what it means for the present day tech titans.   Socials: Stay in touch with us on Twitter and Instagram Guest: Managing editor of The Saturday Paper, Emily Barrett.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Solstice Media, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Brazil Unfiltered (LS 32 · 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 policy and advocacy, Marianna has worked, among others, with the Brazilian National Truth Commission, the United Nations Development Program, the International Rescue Committee, and the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. She has taught at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, The New School, and CUNY. She holds an M.A. in Philosophy and in International Relations, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy.Brazil is going through challenging times. There’s never been a more important moment to understand Brazil’s politics, society, and culture. To go beyond the headlines, and to ask questions that aren’t easy to answer. 'Brazil Unfiltered,' does just that. This podcast is hosted by James N. Green, Professor of Brazilian History and Culture at Brown University and the National Co-Coordinator of the U.S. Network for Democracy in Brazil. Brazil Unfiltered is part of the Democracy Observatory, supported by the Washington Brazil Office. This podcast is edited and produced by Camilo Rocha in São Paulo.https://www.braziloffice.org/en/observatory#activitiesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Washington Brazil Office, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Building Local Power (LS 41 · 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 summarizationAI technology and large language models are growing in popularity. Also growing is the technology's detrimental effect on the environment. Each query into ChatGPT, to use one example, requires billions of calculations. Multiply that by millions of users, and suddenly, tech companies need to greatly expand their computing power in the form of new, energy-draining data centers. Each of those centers requires staggering amounts of fresh water to keep its servers cool. By some estimates, just 10 ChatGPT queries are equivalent to evaporating a 16oz bottle of water. For context, the popularity of these queries has resulted in one of the major technology companies now having the same annual water consumption as PepsiCo. Joining us on Building Local Power to discuss what this all means is UC Riverside professor Dr. Shaolei Ren. Continuing our series exploring how monopolies exploit structural racism to gain monopoly power, Ren not only outlines the environmental effects of AI but also explains how data center location decisions by Big Tech companies exacerbate environmental inequity. Almost all of the counties most affected by AI's climate harms are low-income communities and Black communities. What can policymakers and the public do? Ren has ideas for that, too, as he pushes for what he calls "health-informed computing." For the full transcript and related resources, visit the episode page: https://ilsr.org/articles/blp-environmental-inequity-of-aiThe 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.

Podcast: Keen On America (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 logic" - a business model focused on creating intermediary layers that mediate human activities while collecting data and maintaining control. While different tech leaders may have different political views, Pepi contends they are all ultimately "prisoners of the platform" driven by growth imperatives. Pepi distinguishes his critique from other tech criticism by arguing that even proposed solutions often fall into the "digital utopian" trap - the belief that better technology can fix technology's problems. Instead, he advocates for strengthening traditional institutions rather than trying to replace them with platforms. He cites journalism as an example where platforms have weakened traditional institutions rather than improved them. While not exactly anti-technology, Pepi believes that unchecked platform capitalism is problematic. He suggests that technology should be developed within institutional frameworks rather than allowing platforms to operate with minimal constraints. Convinced? If not, it’s probably because you, like everyone else, is a prisoner of platform capitalism. Mike Pepi writes about art, culture, and technology. MHiswork has appeared in frieze, e-flux, Flash Art, Art in America, DIS Magazine, The Straddler, The New Inquiry, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, this is tomorrow, 艺术界 LEAP, the Apollo Magazine Blog, Spike Art, The Brooklyn Rail, Rhizome, and The New Criterion. He organized Cloud-Based Institutional Critique (CBIC), a reading group focused on emerging digital technologies and their relationship to cultural institutions. In 2015 he guest edited the Data Issue of DIS Magazine with Marvin Jordan. In 2018, I guest-edited a special issue of Heavy Machinery at SFMoMA's Open Space. Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribeThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Andrew Keen, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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 digital. Also, data scientist Gloria Mark who has crunched the numbers on how our attention spans have fared over the past decade or so. If you can keep focused, you might find it fascinating.GuestsProfessor Gloria Mark – data scientist and psychologist, Department of Informatics, University of California, IrvineKyle Chayka – author and contributing writer for The New YorkerFurther informationGloria Mark - Attention Span: A Ground Breaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity Kyle Chayka – Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ABC, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Un-Diplomatic Podcast (LS 39 · TOP 2% 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 to do with everything from domestic governance to World War III and the "future of war?" All that and more in Van Jackson's chat with Max Read. Subscribe to Max's ReadMax newsletter: https://maxread.substack.com Subscribe to the Un-Diplomatic Newsletter: https://www.un-diplomatic.com/ Catch Un-Diplomatic on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/undiplomaticpodcastThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Van Jackson, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Sunday Magazine (LS 51 · 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 Matsakis, Paris Marx and Nitasha Tiku join Piya Chattopadhyay to explore how the year's top tech developments are transforming relationships between Silicon Valley, elected officials and society.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CBC, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Odd Lots (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: How the Hedge Fund Magnetar Is Financing the AI BoomPub date: 2024-12-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAI software and the hardware that enables it have been hugely popular investments this year. But there have still been limiting factors on the sector, including a shortage of compute to power so many new start-ups. Investors don't want to finance companies that lack a signed contract for compute, and compute providers don't want to sign contracts for startups that haven't already secured funding. Now Magnetar, a hedge fund which started its first ever venture capital fund earlier this year, is trying to solve this "chicken and egg" problem by offering compute in exchange for equity. Magnetar was an early investor in the AI space, partnering with Coreweave and recently helping the hyperscaler to raise $7.5 billion. On this episode, we speak with Jim Prusko, partner and senior portfolio manager on Magnetar's alternative credit and fixed income team, about why the hedge fund is getting into venture capital and some of the new ways they're deploying money in the space. Read More: Magnetar Starts First-Ever Venture Fund, Targets Generative AI Become a Bloomberg.com subscriber using our special intro offer at bloomberg.com/podcastoffer. You’ll get episodes of this podcast ad-free and exclusive access to our daily Odd Lots newsletter. Already a subscriber? Connect your account on the Bloomberg channel page in Apple Podcasts to listen ad-free. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bloomberg, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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 Verso Podcast, but until then we hope you’ll enjoy the exciting interim episodes we have in store for you. Matteo Pasquinelli is an associate professor in Philosophy of Science at the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. His writing has appeared in AI and Society, e-flux, Multitudes, Radical Philosophy, the South Atlantic Quarterly, and many other places besides. He is the author of several books, including his most recent work, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence - out now with Verso Books (https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/735-the-eye-of-the-master). Matteo sat down with Richard Hames to explore some of the ideas laid out in his latest text - cutting against popular understandings of artificial intelligence that have come to increasingly dominate our cultural imaginaries, our workplaces, our digital lives, and our visions of the future. Pasquinelli argues that whilst many may claim that artificial intelligence imitates biological intelligence, the reality is that AI does not amount to a digital proxy of the neural pathways of individual human beings. Instead, he advances the opinion that AI imitates the intelligence of labor and social relations - framing it as a social and political creature, whose problems demand social and political responses. In this interview Matteo talks algorithms, IQ tests, and why AI will ultimately lead to us working more, not less. Don’t forget to subscribe to the show so you can be the first to know when season four drops - and so that you don’t miss any of the bonus content coming your way between now and then. If you enjoy The Verso Podcast please consider leaving a rating or review wherever you get your podcasts - it really helps us out!The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Verso Books, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast (LS 48 · 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 the artists' evolving role in the 21st century. This event will offer exciting opportunities to interact with the artists and a realistic portrait-drawing robot built on 60,000 lines of code. Together, we will gain insight into the future of art and AI by fostering a deeper understanding of how technology is reshaping the art world, culture, and humanity's creative landscape.Learn more: Read this New York Times article "Visions of A.I. Art From OpenAI's First Artist in Residence," including comments from speaker Hugh Leeman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Commonwealth Club of California, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

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-libertarian WIRED takes a look at one of Silicon Valley’s most influential ideologies. Powered by VoiceFeed. https://voicefeed.web.app/lp/podcast?utm_source=apple_technews&utm_medium=podcast Developer:https://twitter.com/_horotterThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from VoiceFeed, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · 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 tech writer and author of Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.Also mentioned in this episode: Brian wrote about the results of the election on his newsletter. Paris wrote about why we need to remember who enabled Elon Musk to obtain his power. There are already reports of advertisers returning to Twitter/X to gain favor with Musk and Trump. OpenAI is moving away from its original non-profit status. Uber chief legal officer Tony West told Kamala Harris to stop attacking big business. Support the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paris Marx, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Hope + Possibilities: A Love Letter to the Future of Work (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: AI in Hiring: The Promise, Perils, and Unintended ConsequencesPub date: 2024-11-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis conversation features an interview with Hilke Schellman, author of "The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, Fired, and Why We Need to Fight Back Now." The host, Nola Simon, shares her personal experiences and concerns about AI in hiring processes, which led her to Schellmann's work. Key points discussed include: The increasing use of AI in hiring processes, especially for high-turnover positions. Potential biases and inaccuracies in AI hiring tools, such as: Favoring certain names or keywords unrelated to job performance Misinterpreting data and making incorrect inferences Potentially replicating existing workforce inequities Lack of transparency and oversight in AI hiring systems, with many companies unaware of how their tools actually make decisions. The need for thorough testing and scrutiny of AI hiring tools to ensure fairness and effectiveness. Concerns about how AI might disadvantage certain groups, including immigrants, non-native English speakers, and those with speech differences. The tension between efficiency in hiring processes and finding the most qualified candidates. The importance of accountability and responsible use of AI in hiring practices. Key Questions Raised: - How accurate and fair are AI hiring tools really? - What data are these systems using to make decisions? - How can job seekers know if AI is being used to evaluate them? - Are companies doing enough due diligence on the AI tools they use? - How can we ensure AI doesn't perpetuate existing biases in hiring? Action Steps for Employers: 1. Thoroughly test any AI hiring tools before implementation 2. Regularly audit AI systems for biases and inaccuracies 3. Maintain human oversight and don't rely solely on AI rankings 4. Prioritize finding qualified candidates over speed of hiring 5. Be transparent with candidates about use of AI in hiring process Action Steps for Job Seekers: 1. Be aware that AI may be used to evaluate your application 2. Focus on clearly communicating relevant skills and experience 3. Consider how AI might interpret information on your resume 4. Prepare for potential AI-powered video interviews 5. Advocate for transparency in hiring processes Key Takeaways: - AI hiring tools often have hidden biases and flaws - More scrutiny and testing of these systems is urgently needed - Job seekers have little visibility into how they're being evaluated - Companies need to balance efficiency with fairness and accuracy - Human oversight remains crucial in hiring processes Hilke Schellmann, is an Emmy award winning investigative reporter and assistant professor of journalism at New York University. As a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Guardian, Schellmann writes about holding artificial intelligence (AI) accountable. In her book, The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired, And Why We Need To Fight Back (Hachette), she investigates the rise of AI in the world of work. Drawing on exclusive information from whistleblowers, internal documents and real‑world tests, Schellmann discovers that many of the algorithms making high‑stakes decisions are biased, racist, and do more harm than good. Her four part investigative podcast and print series on AI and hiring for MIT Technology Review was a finalist for a Webby Award. Her documentary Outlawed in Pakistan, which played at Sundance and aired on PBS FRONTLINE, was recognized with an Emmy, an Overseas Press Club, and a Cinema for Peace Award amongst others. In her investigation into student loans for VICE on HBO, she uncovered how a spigot of easy money from the federal government is driving up the cost of higher education in the U.S. and is even threatening the country's international competitiveness. The documentary was named a 2017 finalist for the Peabody Awards. A former Director of Video Journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Schellman also spearheaded video coverage as a Multimedia Reporter for the New York section of The Wall Street Journal. Her work has appeared in several publications including The New York Times, VICE, HBO, PBS, TIME, ARD, ZDF, WNYC, National Geographic, The Guardian, Glamour, and The Atlantic. Schellmann's work has been generously supported by the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, MIT Knight Science Fellowship, The Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Network and the NYU Journalism Venture Capital Fund Hilke Schellmann - Author of "The Algorithm" - Hachette Book Group | LinkedIn THE ALGORITHM • Now On Sale From Hachette Books Citations: [1] https://ppl-ai-file-upload.s3.amazonaws.com/web/direct-files/15878539/8ba935a9-b4e2-401e-9acf-488cf223410e/paste.txtThe podcast and artwork

Podcast: The Road to Accountable AI (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Angela Zhang: What's Really Happening with AI (and AI Governance) in ChinaPub date: 2024-10-31Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week, Professor Werbach is joined by USC Law School professor Angela Zhang, an expert on China's approach to the technology sector. China is both one of the world's largest markets and home to some of the world's leading tech firms, as well as an active ecosystem of AI developers. Yet its relationship to the United States has become increasingly tense. Many in the West see a battle between the US and China to dominate AI, with significant geopolitical implications. In the episodoe, Zhang discusses China's rapidly evolving tech and AI landscape, and the impact of government policies on its development. She dives into what the Chinese government does and doesn't do in terms of AI regulation, and compares Chinese practices to those in the West. Kevin and Angela consider the implications of US export controls on AI-related technologies, along with the potential for cooperation between the US and China in AI governance. Finally, they look toward the future of Chinese AI including its progress and potential challenges. Angela Huyue Zhang is a Professor of Law at the Gould School of Law of the University of Southern California. She is the author of Chinese Antitrust Exceptionalism: How the Rise of China Challenges Global Regulation which was named one of the Best Political Economy Books of the Year by ProMarket in 2021. Her second book, High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy, released in March 2024, has been covered in The New York Times, Bloomberg, Wire China, MIT Tech Review and many other international news outlets. High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs Its Economy The Promise and Perils of China's Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Angela Zhang's Website Want to learn more? ​​Engage live with Professor Werbach and other Wharton faculty experts in Wharton's new Strategies for Accountable AI online executive education program. It's perfect for managers, entrepreneurs, and advisors looking to harness AI's power while addressing its risks. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Kevin Werbach, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick CouldryPub date: 2024-10-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry to discuss how Silicon Valley's extractive data collection regime and the power it grants them resembles a much older form of exploitation: colonialism.Ulises A. Mejias is a professor of Communication Studies at SUNY Oswego and Nick Couldry is a professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics. They are the co-authors of Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back and among the co-founders of the network Tierra Común.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.Also mentioned in this episode: Read an excerpt of Ulises and Nick’s book. Ulises has helped advance the Non-Aligned Technologies Movement. The World Economic Forum and Accenture published a report on governance of AI. Geoffrey Hinton was one of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics. Paris wrote about why we shouldn’t trust his assessment of AI. Google told the UK Labour government it will be left behind in the AI race if it doesn’t do what the company demands. Data centers use 21% of electricity in Ireland, and number that could jump to 31% within the next three years. Home building in West London could be restricted until 2035 because data centers have used up the available energy. Kenya is being drafted into the US’s anti-China tech alliance, which includes building data centers while ignoring the poor working conditions of data labelers and content moderators. Support the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paris Marx, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-FeudalismPub date: 2024-10-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPart 1. Fascism, History, and Education Guest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including How Fascism Works; How Propaganda Works; and his latest, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future. Part 2. Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism Guest: Cédric Durand is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Geneva and a member of the Centre d’économie Paris Nord. He is the author of Fictitious Capital: How Finance Appropriates Our Future, and his latest, How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy. He is a regular contributor to the online journal Contretemps and to Sidecar, the blog of the New Left Review. The post Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism appeared first on KPFA.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KPFA, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Tactics&Practice [podcast]Episode: The Future Behind Us | Ep. #5: Social Justice, Satire and Video Games [w/ Paolo Pedercini from MOLLEINDUSTRIA]Pub date: 2024-08-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCan you make video games about environmental justice or labour? How about religion, the military, gun violence, mass incarceration, immigration or the Anthropocene? Can you entertain players with such hard-hitting matters? Can you use games to make players reflect on ethics, politics and the economy? Since 2003, MOLLEINDUSTRIA has been devising “artisanal remedies to the idiocy of mainstream entertainment in the form of short experimental games”. What started as a project to create mordant parodies soon became one of the most iconic pioneering works of critical video games Spotify Soundcloud Apple podcast YouTube Music RSS Additional content MOLLEINDUSTRIAhttps://www.molleindustria.orgLIKELIKE Galleryhttps://likelike.orgPhone Storyhttp://www.phonestory.orgThe New York Times Simulatorhttps://molleindustria.itch.io/the-new-york-times-simulator COLOPHON Host: Régine DebattyGuest: Paolo Pedercini from MOLLEINDUSTRIA  Recording: Régine DebattyMusic, editing and audio mix: Gašper Torkar The Future Behind Us podcast series Curated by: Régine DebattyCoordinated by: Janez Fakin JanšaProduced by: Marcela Okretič Production:Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2024 Part of:PXXP•XXV: Speculation and DecayConceived and co-organised by:Aksioma For:Pixxelpoint – 25th International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices Produced and co-organised by:Nova Gorica Arts Centre In the framework of:GO! 2025 – European Capital of Culture, Nova Gorica 2025 Supported by:the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica The post The Future Behind Us | Ep. #5: Social Justice, Satire and Video Games [w/ Paolo Pedercini from MOLLEINDUSTRIA] appeared first on Aksioma.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Tactics&Practice [podcast], which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Bridging the Gaps: A Portal for Curious Minds (LS 25 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: “Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” with Professor Payal AroraPub date: 2024-10-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe news about emerging technologies often sounds alarming as well as discouraging. Headlines talk about how algorithms control and oppress people. There are fears that AI could harm democracy, damage our social connections, or even cause human extinction. While these fears come from real concerns, it’s also important to recognize the good that technology offers. For young people, tech can provide a unique space for self-growth. In her book “From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech”, award-winning author professor Payal Arora shares a different perspective, especially outside the Western world, where most young people live. In these places, there’s a wave of optimism about technology, especially among marginalized groups. These users see hope in the possibilities that new tech brings. In this episode of Bridging the Gaps, I speak with professor Payal Arora. Payal Arora is a digital anthropologist, consultant, TEDx speaker, and the award-winning author. She is a Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and is the cofounder of FemLab, a feminist initiative focused on the future of work. We begin by exploring how emerging technologies are transforming education in the Global South in positive ways. These changes are not just reshaping traditional systems but also offering new opportunities that bring hope to more people and foster greater inclusivity. Next, we emphasize the importance of context when evaluating and discussing these new technologies. A one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work; instead, the impact of technology can vary greatly depending on cultural, social, and economic circumstances. Take the example of privacy—what privacy means and how it is valued can shift dramatically when considered in different contexts. In some communities, privacy concerns might revolve around data security, while in others, it may be more about social visibility or personal safety. This makes it essential to examine technologies through a local lens. We also delve into the concept of the Global South, both as a geographical term and as a mindset. While the Global South refers to countries typically in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and parts of the Middle East, it is also much more than just a place on the map. It represents a way of thinking and living, shaped by shared histories of colonialism, economic challenges, and rapid adaptation to global forces. It is a concept rich with multiple contexts, where resilience and innovation are key themes. Finally, we explore the sense of hope and optimism that emerging technologies bring to the Global South. In these regions, technology is often seen not as a threat but as a tool for empowerment. People are embracing digital advancements with excitement, seeing them as opportunities to overcome obstacles and build a better future. This contagious optimism is fueled by the ability to leapfrog over outdated systems, creating new paths for social progress, economic growth, and personal empowerment. Complement this discussion with ““Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub” with Robert Buderi” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2023/05/kendall-square-and-the-making-of-a-global-innovation-hub-with-robert-buderi/ And then listen to ““The Good-Enough Life” with Dr Avram Alpert” available at: https://www.bridgingthegaps.ie/2023/09/the-good-enough-life-with-dr-avram-alpert/The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr Waseem Akhtar, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: FreshEd (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: FreshEd #368 – Data-Driven Universities (Janja Komljenovic)Pub date: 2024-09-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support -- Today we explore how univeristies are turning into data-driven institutions. My guest is Janja Komljenovic. Janja Komljenovic is a senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Her new co-written article with Sam Sellar and Kean Birch is “Turning universities into data-driven organizations: seven dimensions of change”, which was published in Higher Education. freshedpodcast.com/368-komljenovic/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FreshEd with Will Brehm, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: FreshEd (LS 40 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: FreshEd #367 – Digital Infrastructures of Education (Ben Williamson)Pub date: 2024-09-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe are starting a FreshEd community and want you to join for as little as $10/month. If you want to join our growing community, please head over to FreshEdpodcast.com/support -- Today we explore the digital transformation of and in education. My guest is Ben Williamson who argues that we are witnessing a new digital infrastructure being built beneath our feet. The last time Ben joined FreshEd was in February 2020, just one month before the UK went into its first Covid-19 lockdown. When it comes to education and technology, a lot has changed in the past 4.5 years. Ben talks through some of those changes. Ben Williamson is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. freshedpodcast.com/367-williamson/ -- Get in touch! Twitter: @FreshEdpodcast Facebook: FreshEd Email: [email protected] Support FreshEd: www.freshedpodcast.com/support/The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FreshEd with Will Brehm, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Diasporas SpeakingEpisode: Memory and Diaspora | 'Balkanism' and Digital Geographies of Cultural ObjectsPub date: 2024-09-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In recent years, Balkan social media has increasingly focused on diaspora memory and perseverance through a digital inventory of cultural artefacts. Digital maps of meaning-making can reproduce and reshape memory, revealing a complex relationship between knowledge production in the diaspora and the culture of origin. This process is dynamic, reflecting the ongoing negotiation of identity and belonging. In this episode, we will speak to the Founder of Balkanism, Arbër Qerka-Gashi, about digital archives and explore the nature of memory perseverance in the digital age. Arbër is a London-based Writer, Curator, Researcher, Visual Artist and Events Producer. He holds a BA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an MA in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture from Birkbeck, University of London. Arbër writes on LGBT+ themes, Balkan heritage, diaspora experiences, Albanian identity, and Kosovo's cultural expression. He also founded the digital platform Balkanism and co-founded the Balkan London Collective. Intro music: North-Albanian Instrumental.Breaker music: Adelina Ismaili, 'Mos Ma Ndal'. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Rina Limoni, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Unionizing the Video Game Industry w/ Taylor Welling & Kathryn FriesenPub date: 2024-09-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Taylor Welling and Kathryn Friesen to discuss how they formed wall-to-wall unions in the video game industry and their thoughts on broader challenges like layoffs and corporate consolidation.Taylor Welling is a producer and union member at OneBGS and Kathryn Friesen is quest designer and member of the World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.Also mentioned in this episode: OneBGS and the World of Warcraft GameMakers Guild each won their union votes in July 2024. More video game workers have already been laid off in 2024 than did in all of 2023. Microsoft and the Communication Workers of America signed a labor neutrality agreement in 2022, to take effect 60 days after its acquisition of Activision Blizzard closed. In May, that agreement was extended to ZeniMax Studios. Microsoft laid off 1,900 gaming workers in January and closed four internal studios in May. Blizzard provides swords, shields, and helmets to employees celebrating 5, 10, and 20 years at the company. The ZeniMax Workers Union struck an agreement with their employer on the use of AI. Nicole Carpenter at Polygon put together a list of video game unions and an explainer on the rise of video game unions. Communication Workers of America has more information on unionizing as part of their CODE-CWA campaign. Support the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paris Marx, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Capitalisn't (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: The End of Google As We Know It?Pub date: 2024-08-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week we're taking a quick summer break, but in the meantime, we wanted to re-share a special episode that is relevant in the news again. With the recent federal court ruling that Google engaged in illegal monopolization of internet searches, we thought it would be a great opportunity to share our episode with lawyer Dina Srinivasan. She's an expert in the field of competition policy and a fellow with the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale University. Google is no stranger to lawsuits and has previously defeated many of them, but now, antitrust experts are optimistic that this case against Google's advertising business is even stronger for the government than the Search case that Google lost just last week.To simplify the apparent complexity of the case and understand why and how it matters to consumers, the advertising market, the tech industry, and the economy, Luigi conducted a special bonus interview with Srinivasan. Following the interview, Bethany joins Luigi to discuss the implications of this case for consumer harm, the business model of journalism, democracy, and beyond.Read more on ProMarket: https://www.promarket.org/tag/google-ad-tech-case/ Watch: 2024 Antitrust and Competition Conference | Antitrust Case Studies: Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw6-LaVh55U Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from University of Chicago Podcast Network, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: No Tech for Apartheid w/ Mohammad Khatami & Gabi SchubinerPub date: 2024-08-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner to discuss the complicity of Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and how tech workers are organizing to stop it.Mohammad Khatami and Gabi Schubiner are former Google software engineers and organizers with No Tech for Apartheid.Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Support the show on Patreon.The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.Also mentioned in this episode: Find out more about No Tech for Apartheid from their website. Microsoft workers have also launched No Azure for Apartheid. Yuval Abraham reported on the Israeli military’s use of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft’s cloud services and AI in Gaza. Mohammad wrote about being fired by Google in The New Arab. Gabi refers to JWCC, with is a reference to the Department of Defense Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract with Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Oracle. Google fired 50 workers earlier this year for organizing over its ties to Israel. The Information reported on how many Arab Americans in tech are scared to speak out in support of Palestinians for fear of retaliation. In 1970, Polaroid workers under the banner of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement began the first anti-apartheid boycott of a US company by organizing against their employer’s complicity in South African apartheid. The IBM Black Workers Alliance was central to the anti-apartheid campaign at that company. Support the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Paris Marx, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Jacobin Radio (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Behind the News: J. D. Vance's Tech Ties w/ David Palumbo-LiuPub date: 2024-08-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCole Stangler talks about the monumentally inconclusive French elections. David Palumbo-Liu explores the Silicon Valley world that launched J. D. Vance as a politician. Plus: a brief bit from the late Jane McAlevey on power.Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.htmlThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jacobin, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Lawfare Daily: Alissa Starzak on Keeping the Internet Running in the Age of AIPub date: 2024-07-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAlissa Starzak, head of public policy at Cloudflare, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss the promises and perils of AI in the cybersecurity context. Frazier, who interned with Cloudflare while in law school, and Starzak cover the novel threats posed by AI to the integrity of the Internet. The two also discuss privacy laws, AI governance, and recent Supreme Court decisions.To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/c/trumptrials.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Lawfare Institute, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Michael Steele Podcast (LS 63 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: From Memes to Extremism: How the Internet Fueled Far-Right Movements (with Elle Reeve)Pub date: 2024-07-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMichael Steele speaks with CNN correspondent and Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist, Elle Reeve about her new book, "Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics." The pair discuss how internet subcultures have contributed to the rise of white nationalism and the role social media plays in shaping people's thoughts and ideologies. Plus, what it's like confronting white supremacists face-to-face and how young people get sucked into extremist movements.If you enjoyed this podcast, be sure to leave a review or share it with a friend!Follow Elle Reeve @elspethreeveFollow Michael @MichaelSteeleFollow the podcast @steele_podcast Follow The Bulwark @BulwarkOnlineThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Bulwark, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Are the big US media platforms swallowing our culture?Pub date: 2024-07-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationGlobal media players now dominate the entertainment business and hold the whip-hand when it comes to accessing local news content. In this program we get an update on Meta's ban on Canadian news content, specifically how it's impacted production of serious news and what's been the public reaction. We also get a reality check on just how interested the giant US steaming services are in Australian content.GuestsAengus Bridgman – Director, Media Ecosystem Observatory (Canada)Matthew Deaner – CEO, Screen Producers AssociationProfessor Anna Potter – Digital Media and Cultural Studies, Queensland University of TechnologyFurther informationWhen journalism is turned off: Preliminary findings on the effects of Meta’s news ban in CanadaAustralian Television Drama’s Uncertain Future: How Cultural Policy is Failing AustraliansThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from ABC, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: New Books in Law (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Carl Öhman, "The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care" (U Chicago Press, 2024)Pub date: 2024-07-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationA short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trails that we leave behind, our identities can now be reconstructed after our death. In fact, AI technology is already enabling us to “interact” with the departed. Sooner than we think, the dead will outnumber the living on Facebook. In this thought-provoking book, Carl Öhman explores the increasingly urgent question of what we should do with all this data and whether our digital afterlives are really our own—and if not, who should have the right to decide what happens to our data.The stakes could hardly be higher. In the next thirty years alone, about two billion people will die. Those of us who remain will inherit the digital remains of an entire generation of humanity—the first digital citizens. Whoever ends up controlling these archives will also effectively control future access to our collective digital past, and this power will have vast political consequences. The fate of our digital remains should be of concern to everyone—past, present, and future. Rising to these challenges, Öhman explains, will require a collective reshaping of our economic and technical systems to reflect more than just the monetary value of digital remains.As we stand before a period of deep civilizational change, The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care (U Chicago Press, 2024) will be an essential guide to understanding why and how we as a human race must gain control of our collective digital past—before it is too late.Jake Chanenson is a computer science Ph.D. student and law student at the University of Chicago. Broadly, Jake is interested in topics relating to HCI, privacy, and tech policy. Jake’s work has been published in top venues such as ACM’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lawThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from New Books Network, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Carnegie Council Podcasts (LS 33 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Cybernetics, Digital Surveillance, & the Role of Unions in Tech Governance, with Elisabet HaugsbøPub date: 2024-07-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode of the AI & Equality podcast, Senior Fellow Anja Kaspersen is joined by Elisabet Haugsbø, president of Norway-based tech union Tekna, to discuss her journey in engineering, the importance of cybernetics, digital surveillance, and how to stay resilient in the age of AI. They also explore the benefits of collaborating with professional unions in technology governance. For more, please go to: https://carnegiecouncil.co/aiei-haugsbøThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.