The Machinist

Podcast: New Books in Economic and Business History (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Jacob Ward, "Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications" (MIT Press, 2024)Pub date: 2024-02-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn Visions of a Digital Nation: Market and Monopoly in British Telecommunications (MIT Press, 2024), Jacob Ward explains why the privatization of British Telecom signaled a pivotal moment in the rise of neoliberalism, and how it was shaped by the longer development and digitalization of Britain’s telecommunications infrastructure. When Margaret Thatcher sold British Telecom for £3.6 billion in 1984, it became not only, at the time, the largest stock flotation in history, but also a watershed moment in the rise of neoliberalism and deregulation. In Visions of a Digital Nation, Ward offers an incisive interdisciplinary perspective on how technology prefigured this pivot. Giving due consideration to the politicians, engineers, and managers who paved the way for this historic moment, Ward illustrates how the decision validated the privatization of public utilities and tied digital technology to free market rationales. In this examination of the national and, at times, global history of technology, Ward’s approach is sweeping. Utilizing infrastructure studies, environmental history, and urban and local history, Ward explores Britain’s nationalist and welfarist plans for a digital information utility and shows how these projects contested and adapted to the “market turn” under Margaret Thatcher. Ultimately, Visions of a Digital Nation compellingly argues that politicians did not impose neoliberalism top-down, but that technology, engineers, and managers shaped these politics from the bottom up.Jacob Ward is Assistant Professor in the History Department and Science, Technology and Society Studies Research Program at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University. He is coeditor of Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain.Filippo De Chirico is a PhD student in History and Politics of Energy at Roma Tre University (Italy). 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: AI FYIEpisode: AI and Digital Love - Part 2Pub date: 2024-02-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPart Two! Ever wondered how your heartstrings could be tugged by lines of code? Join us as we trace the captivating evolution of chatbots and their starring role in modern romance. Fresh, controversial take? Hot take? Who knows. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Andrea Butkovic, Joe Cloughley, Kiran Vajapey , 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: What’s Really Killing the News Media? w/ Victor PickardPub date: 2024-02-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Victor Pickard to discuss the continued layoffs in news media, and how they are symptomatic of a deeper, structural crisis in journalism.Victor Pickard is Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at University of Pennsylvania. He’s also the author of Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society.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 and produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.Also mentioned in this episode: Paris will be speaking in Christchurch on February 4 and Wellington on February 8. Victor wrote for Niemen Lab about the need to divorce news and capitalism, and argued for public newspapers in the Washington Post. In the US, two-thirds of newspaper jobs, or 43,000 journalists, have been lost since 2005. Robert McChesney and John Nichols propose a Local Journalism Initiative. Police raided a newspaper in Kansas on August 11, 2023, setting off a major scandal that’s now seen the police chief suspended. 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: How Spotify Tried to Take Over Podcasting w/ Eric SilverPub date: 2024-01-25Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Eric Silver to discuss Spotify’s big plan to dominate podcasting, why it’s now pulling back from those efforts, and the difference between highly produced and more independent podcasts.Eric Silver is a podcast producer and head of development at Multitude.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 and produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.Also mentioned in this episode: Paris will be in Christchurch on February 4 (details here) and Wellington on February 8 (details here). He’s hoping to get an Auckland date organized and is open to going to Australia. Spotify pulled back on its podcasting ambitions last year, canceling big shows and laying off staff. After buying Gimlet and Parcast, it merged them into Spotify Originals last year. Ashley Carman posted a slide from a Spotify presentation presenting the RSS feed as “outdated tech” because it’s harder for them to harvest data from. 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: AI Hype Distracted Us From Real Problems w/ Timnit GebruPub date: 2024-01-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Timnit Gebru to discuss the past year in AI hype, how AI companies have shaped regulation, and tech’s relationship to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. 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 produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry. Also mentioned in this episode: Paris is speaking in Montreal on January 20. Details here. Billy Perrigo reported on OpenAI lobbying to water down the EU’s AI Act. Nitasha Tiku wrote about the push to train students in a particular idea of AI. Politico has been doing a lot of reporting on the influences on AI policy in the US and UK. OpenAI made a submission in the UK to try to get permission to train on copyrighted material. Arab workers in the tech industry fear the consequences of speaking out for Palestinian rights. 972 Magazine reported on Israel’s use of AI to increase its targets in Gaza. Jack Poulson chronicles the growing ties between military and tech. Timnit mentioned No Tech for Apartheid, Antony Loewenstein’s The Palestine Laboratory, and Malcolm Harris’ Palo Alto. 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: Big Technology Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Would a World Without Algorithms Be Better? — With Kyle ChaykaPub date: 2024-01-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationKyle Chayka is a New Yorker staff writer and author of FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Chayka joins Big Technology Podcast to talk about his book — which debuts this week — and dig into whether algorithms really do make our culture flatter. In this spirited conversation, we interrogate the role of algorithms in society, ask how they reflect in the real world, and ponder how products would be redesigned to take back control. Stay tuned for the second half, where we discuss Chayka's story on people falling in love with AI bots. ---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/Questions? 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: Intelligence Squared (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Power Grab: David Runciman on the Reach of Corporations, States and AIPub date: 2024-01-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDavid Runciman is Professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the author of books including The Politics of Good Intentions, Political Hypocrisy and The Confidence Trap. He also hosts the popular Past Present Future podcast. His latest book is The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States and AIs. The book argues that states and corporations are the immensely powerful artificial entities that now rule our world, with AI a third frontier about to join an already well established model. Joining Runciman in conversation for this episode is Adam McCauley, Senior Policy Advisor at the Department of National Defence in Canada and a writer on issues such as politics, technology, and the future. McCauley was previously based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.If you'd like to get access to all of our longer form interviews and members-only content, just visit intelligencesquared.com/membership to find out more. For £4.99 per month you'll also receive:- Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared episodes, wherever you get your podcasts- Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series- 15% discount on livestreams and in-person tickets for all Intelligence Squared events- Our member-only newsletter The Monthly Read, sent straight to your inbox...Or Subscribe on Apple for £4.99:- Full-length and ad-free Intelligence Squared podcasts- Bonus Intelligence Squared podcasts, curated feeds and members exclusive series...Already a subscriber? Thank you for supporting our mission to foster honest debate and compelling conversations! Visit intelligencesquared.com to explore all your benefits including ad-free podcasts, exclusive bonus content, early access and much more...Subscribe to our newsletter here to hear about our latest events, discounts and much more.https://www.intelligencesquared.com/newsletter-signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Intelligence Squared, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Social Media and Politics (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: The Platform Society, Public Values, and Politics, with Prof. José van DijckPub date: 2019-07-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJosé van Dijck, Distinguished Professor in Media and Society at Utrecht University, guests to discuss her latest book, The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World (Oxford University Press).We break down key concepts from the book, including Platform Societies and Platform Power. We discuss the importance of public values in the Platform Society, and how these values might differ across the United States, the European Union, and China.Prof. van Dijck also shares her thoughts on how platforms can be reverse engineered in ways that promote the public good.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Michael Bossetta , which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Ned Ludd Radio Hour (LS 28 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Won't Somebody Please Think of the Workers?!Pub date: 2023-12-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJathan Sadowski, my guest today, is an academic and our conversation is going to sound a bit academic. He’s a senior fellow at the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University in Melbourne. He has also authored a book called, worryingly, Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World and co-hosts a, much more successful, weekly podcast called This Machine Kills.I recorded this interview with Jathan back in the summer, so I’m not going to be discussing Christmas shopping, nor am I going to be asking him for advice on whether I should pick up a couple of weeks of extra work as a gift wrapper at Waterstones (top Christmas tip: books are easy to wrap). But what we are going to be talking about is the history of Luddism as a labour movement. To some extent, everything that I’ve been doing with this podcast over the past couple of months has been in service of that question. How can we prevent the current changes to the world of work penalising the poorest in our society?I sent this question over to Ned who is, predictably, having a very busy festive period and took an age to respond (hence why this episode is coming out late). Here’s what they had to say:“SORRY FOR SLOW REPLY NICK. BEEN SNOWED UNDER – ALMOST NO PUN INTENDED. THE ONLY PROACTIVE DECISION THAT TECH INVESTORS ARE RESPONDING TO, IN THIS ERA THAT WE MIGHT CALL THE LATE PRE-ARTIFICIAL WORKER ERA, IS CUTTING. HUMAN CAPITAL IS THE FIRST THING TO BE CUT. CUT CUT CUT. THE QUESTION IS COMING VERY SOON ABOUT WHETHER RATHER THAN CUTTING THEY CAN REPLACE; OPTIMISE OUTPUTS WHILE REDUCING COSTS. THIS SHOULD BE A VERY PROFOUND WORRY – IT WILL START IN SILICON VALLEY, ZURICH, SHENZHEN AND ZHONGGUANCUN – BUT IT WILL BE A GROWING CONCERN AMONGST ALL EMPLOYERS. INCREASING REVENUE IS A PROJECT THAT REQUIRES PATIENCE; REDUCING COSTS CREATES AN IMMEDIATELY DISCERNIBLE CHANGE. THERE IS NO WORKER WHO SHOULD BE COMPLACENT RIGHT NOW.”The Ned Ludd Radio Hour is a Podot podcast, written and presented by me, Nick Hilton.The theme music is Internet Song by Apes of the State, used with their generous permission. The artwork is by Tom Humberstone.For socials go to NEDLUDDLIVES.COM and spread the word. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Podot, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Today in Focus (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The spy tech firm managing NHS dataPub date: 2023-11-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationPalantir, the US spy-tech firm co-founded by the billionaire Peter Thiel, has won a contract to handle NHS data. It’s a deal that has left privacy advocates such as Cori Crider with serious questions. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/infocus">theguardian.com/infocus</a>The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Guardian, 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 Fight Over the Future of OpenAI w/ Mike IsaacPub date: 2023-11-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Mike Isaac to discuss the drama around Sam Altman being temporarily removed from OpenAI, what it means for the future of the company, and how Microsoft benefits from its partnership with the company.Mike Isaac is a technology reporter at the New York Times. He’s also the author of Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber.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 produced by Eric Wickham. Transcripts are by Brigitte Pawliw-Fry.Also mentioned in this episode: Mike summarized the OpenAI-Sam Altman affair with his colleagues in the New York Times. He's been reporting on it since it began. Paris wrote about the Sam Altman-Microsoft relationship in Disconnect. Semafor reported that in 2018, Elon Musk tried to take over OpenAI but was pushed out instead. Forbes reporter Sarah Emerson went through Emmett Shear’s old tweets — and yikes. 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 Infinite Monkey Cage (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: How I is AI?Pub date: 2023-11-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBrian and Robin (the real ones) are joined by mathematician Prof Hannah Fry, compute scientist Dr Kate Devlin and comedian Rufus Hound to discuss the pros and cons of AI. Just how intelligent is the most intelligent AI? Will our phones soon be smarter than us – will we fail a Turing test while our phone passes it? Will we have AI therapists, doctors, lawyers, carers or even politicians? How will the increasing ubiquity of AI systems change our society and our relationships with each other? Could radio presenters of hit science/comedy shows soon be replaced with wittier, smarter AI versions that know more about particle physics... surely not!New episodes released Wednesdays. If you're in the UK, listen to the newest episodes of The Infinite Monkey Cage first on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3JzyFExecutive Producer: Alexandra Feachem.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC Radio 4, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Collective Intellectualities (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: 19 Kenneth Saltman - Beyond Bodies and Numbers: AI, Education, and the Digital Politics of KnowledgePub date: 2023-11-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationKenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Ken’s work covers neoliberal privatization, politics of education, culture, and subjectivity in education through critical theory and critical educational tradition. He joins us on this episode of Collective Intellectualities to chat about his new book, The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers, out now on MIT Press.Links to selected works:The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers (MIT Press, 2022)https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544368/the-alienation-of-fact/The Disaster of Resilience: Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering (Bloomsbury, 2023)https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/disaster-of-resilience-9781350342439/The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alex Means and Amy Sojot, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Data Fix with Dr. Mél Hogan (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Open, with David Gray WidderPub date: 2023-10-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhile efforts to make “AI” more “open” have gained momentum lately, it seems like both concepts are worth scrutinizing and historicizing so that we can better understand how these marketing terms become a focus (and distraction), as material conditions are downplayed. With David Gray Widder, we discuss where “ethics” are located and how “AI” workers of all kinds imagine responsibility to be someone else’s problem, or somewhere else down the chain. Recorded Sept 12, 2023. Released Oct 23, 2023.The Myth of ‘Open Source’ AIhttps://www.wired.com/story/the-myth-of-open-source-ai/ Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AIhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807 Limits and Possibilities for “Ethical AI” in Open Source: A Study of Deepfakeshttps://davidwidder.me/deepfakes.pdf Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibilityhttps://davidwidder.me/supply-chain.pdf Computer scientists designing the future can’t agree on what privacy meanshttps://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/03/1070665/cmu-university-privacy-battle-smart-building-sensors-mites/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Mél Hogan, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Varn Vlog (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Exploring Language Modeling and Cybernetics: A Conversation with Mark RaineyPub date: 2023-10-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationEver wondered how the complexity of Language Modeling (LLMs) and cybernetics can revolutionize the way we communicate and interact? Are you curious about the sociopolitical implications of such advancements? Join us in an enlightening discussion with the well-versed Mark Rainey, as we dissect these technologies and their potential impact on our society.Our journey begins with an exploration of LLMs, their potential, and inherent limitations. We discuss the nuanced logic of human language, Boolean operators, and their influence on the design of these systems. We then shift gears to delve into the intriguing world of cybernetics, viable systems, and the behavioralist and cognitivist wars. We scrutinize the implications of these advancements and the tests used to measure intelligence, all the while contemplating the potential and pitfalls of Stafford Beer's Viable System Model. As we navigate further, we probe into the relationship between technology and Marxism, questioning the teleological feedback loop of capital and its effects on the proletariat. We also explore the exciting realm of cybernetic planning and the potential role of LLMs in such systems. Finally, we reflect on the concepts of agency, alienation, class dynamics, and the implications of capitalism on social reproduction. This rich and riveting conversation with Mark Rainey is not to be missed!Send us Fan Mail Musis by Bitterlake, Used with Permission, all rights to BitterlakeSupport the showCrew:Host: C. Derick VarnIntro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesArt Design: Corn and C. Derick VarnLinks and Social Media:twitter: @varnvlogblue sky: @varnvlog.bsky.socialYou can find the additional streams on YoutubeCurrent Patreon at the Sponsor Tier: Jordan Sheldon, Mark J. Matthews, Lindsay Kimbrough, RedWolf, DRV, Kenneth McKee, JY Chan, Matthew Monahan, Parzival, Adriel Mixon, Buddy Roark, Daniel Petrovic,JulianThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from C. Derick Varn, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Podcast for Social Research (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Faculty Spotlight: R.H. Lossin on Sabotage, Luddites, Violence, and the Digital Library DystopiaPub date: 2023-10-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn episode six of Faculty Spotlight, Mark and Lauren sit down with R.H. Lossin, postdoctoral fellow at Harvard's Warren Center of Studies in American History and a leading scholar of the theory and practice of sabotage. The three discuss: what led R.H. to the study of sabotage; why sabotage is more ordinary than you think; R.H.'s beef with the "universal library"—i.e., the total digitization of books; how readers have become producers; why Luddites have a bad rap; the meaning of "capitalist sabotage"; and the violent origins of all private property—among other scintillating subjects.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Below the Radar (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Platforms, Power, and Politics — with Bruce MutsvairoPub date: 2023-10-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBruce Mutsvairo, Professor of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, and a 2023 SFU CERi researcher-in-residence, sits down with Am Johal to discuss his journey from journalism into academia and the state of journalism in Africa. He and Am also discuss the complexities of citizen journalism in relation to influencers, especially in the context of transparency, misinformation, and inequality. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/223-bruce-mutsvairo.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/223-bruce-mutsvairo.html Resources: Bruce Mutsvairo: https://www.uu.nl/staff/bmutsvairo Introducing Bruce Mutsvairo: https://www.sfu.ca/ceri/blog/2023/Introducing-Bruce-Mutsvairo.html Platforms, Power and Politics: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=platforms-power-and-politics--9781509553570&fbclid=IwAR0qhMg8n4OLgGo0ucxHYcTwtdXSF38ZpYbDYYCLmcCNpZIEWuf3tCuSsv4 Bio: Bruce Mutsvairo is a Professor in the department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, where he also doubles as the UNESCO Chair on Disinformation, Data and Democracy. His research revolves around the importance of community engagement in academia. Bruce is SFU CERi’s researcher-in-residence from January until August 2023. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “Platforms, Power, and Politics — with Bruce Mutsvairo.” Below the Radar, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, October 17, 2023. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/223-bruce-mutsvairo.html.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Ipse Dixit (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Christa Laser on the Law of the BlockchainPub date: 2023-10-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, Christa Laser, Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland State University College of Law, discusses her article "Legal Issues in Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and NFTs," which will be published in the Nebraska Law Review. Laser begins by explaining that we should think about the relationship between law and the blockchain as posing questions about how to apply abstract concepts to problems posed by new technologies, not an obligation to create a new body of law. She describes how regulators and courts have applied securities law, intellectual property law, and contract law to blockchain-related problem. And she encourages regulators, courts, and legislators to learn more about how this new technology works before acting to regulate it. Laser is on Twitter at @ChristaLaser.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CC0/Public Domain, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: What Next | Daily News and Analysis (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: Inside Crypto's House of CardsPub date: 2023-10-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe trial of Sam Bankman-Fried marks the end of an era where crypto rose to dizzying, Super-Bowl-commercial heights. Where does the industry go from here? Guest: Zeke Faux, investigative reporter for Bloomberg and author of Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Last QuestionEpisode: Disinformation In Warfare with Olga TokariukPub date: 2023-09-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHow is Russia deploying disinformation following its full scale invasion of Ukraine? What's the difference between disinformation, misinformation, and propaganda? Can memes win wars? Check out this fascinating interview with Olga Tokariuk - journalist and disinformation researcher - to find out. Olga Tokariuk is an independent journalist, non-resident fellow at CEPA (Center for European Policy Analysis) and former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford, where she is currently based. Her main professional interests are international affairs and research on disinformation. Olga has vast experience in Ukrainian and international media. Her reports and op-eds have been featured in TIME, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, NPR, BBC, Monocle, EFE (Spain), Il Foglio, ANSA (Italy). She is a former head of foreign news desk at the independent Ukrainian Hromadske TV. Also in this episode, we read a listener mail from Dr. Sreevas Sahasranamam about how artificial intelligence may influence the future of the Hindu faith. You can email us at [email protected] or keep up to date with DataFest at https://datafest.global and on Twitter @datafest_ Your hosts are Gordon Johnstone - Head of DataFest at The Data Lab, Scotland's innovation centre for data and artificial intelligence hosted by the University of Edinburgh - and Lily Higham, Senior Automation Engineer at the BBC World Service. Music provided by Post Coal Prom Queen.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from DataFest, 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: The Problem with the "Big" in Big TechPub date: 2023-09-17Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationToday’s episode features two segments, both of which consider the scale of technology platforms and their power over markets and people. In the first, Rebecca Rand delivers a conversation with University of Technology Sydney researcher Dr. Luis Lozano-Paredes about a community of drivers in Colombia who have hacked together a way to preserve their power alongside the adoption of ride sharing apps. And in the second, Justin Hendrix speaks with Columbia University Law School Professor of Law, Science and Technology Tim Wu, who recently spent two years on the National Economic Council in the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Competition and Technology. The conversation touches on privacy legislation, ideas about competition and scale, and Wu's observations on the landmark antitrust trial between the Justice Department and Google, which wrapped up its first week of testimony on Friday. The conversation took place at the All Tech is Human Responsible Tech Summit, hosted with the Consulate General of Canada in New York, on September 14th.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: The Lawfare Podcast (LS 68 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Chatter: Geopolitics and the Rise of the English Language with Rosemary SalomonePub date: 2023-08-31Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe English language has recently developed a historically unique dominance in the global marketplace--a situation that brings plenty of benefits and just as many downsides. Rosemary Salomone, Kenneth Wang Professor of Law at St. John's University, has researched and analyzed various perspectives on English's supremacy in her recent book The Rise of English, which has a paperback version with a new preface coming early in 2024.David Priess spoke with Rosemary about her background in linguistics and education studies, the origins of the English language's dominance, the role of pop culture in the balance between English as spoken in the United States and as spoken in the United Kingdom, divergent official language policies of international organizations like the United Nations and the European Union, the Anglophone bubble, English as a marketable skill, the debate about the English language within France, French vs Chinese inroads in Africa, the role of the French and English languages in the Rwandan genocide and its aftermath, the controversy over the People's Republic of China-funded Confucius Institutes, the rise of English as the language of protest internationally, the culture around foreign language learning in the US, views about computer coding as a "foreign langauge," Ukrainian President Zelensky's use of the English language, the possibility of Spanish replacing English as the most global language, and more.Among the works mentioned in this episode:The book The Rise of English by Rosemary SalomoneThe book True American by Rosemary SalomoneThe book Visions of Schooling by Rosemary SalomoneThe book Madam Speaker by Susan PageChatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Noam Osband and Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad.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: This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 281. The Smoking Gun of Techno-Capitalism (ft. Meredith Whittaker)Pub date: 2023-09-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe are joined by one of our favorite friends — Meredith Whittaker — for a giant discussion that bridges her two latest articles. First a historical analysis of Charles Babbage and the smoking gun that directly links plantation logics of control with the industrial design of computation. Then a political economy of “open” AI and the material power that dominates the entire stack for these systems. ••• Follow Meredith: https://twitter.com/mer__edith ••• Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control | Meredith Whittaker https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/ ••• Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI | David Gray Widder, Meredith Whittaker, Sarah Myers West https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807 Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)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 Public Policy (LS 34 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)Pub date: 2023-08-29Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationA concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman’s uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forward, doctors and scientists have turned to technology in ever more innovative ways to facilitate conception. Fertility Technology (MIT Press, 2023) surveys this history in all its medical, practical, and ethical complexity, and offers a look at state-of-the-art fertility technology in various social and political contexts around the world. Donna J. Drucker’s concise and eminently readable account introduces the five principal types of fertility technologies used in human reproduction—artificial insemination; ovulation timing; sperm, egg, and embryo freezing; in vitro fertilization; and IVF in uterine transplants—discussing the development, manufacture, dispersion, and use of each. Geographically, it focuses on countries where innovations have emerged and countries where these technologies most profoundly affect individuals and population policies. Drucker’s wide-ranging perspective reveals how these technologies, used for birth control as well as conception in many cases, have been critical in shaping the moral, practical, and political meaning of human life, kinship, and family in different nations and cultures since the mid-nineteenth century.Donna J. Drucker is Assistant Director of Scholarship and Research Development at the Columbia University School of Nursing.Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policyThe 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: All Things Policy (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: How Do We Assure Social Security to Gig Workers?Pub date: 2023-08-04Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe State of Rajasthan recently passed a law on social security for platform-based gig workers. Under the law, a 1-2 percent welfare cess will be levied on the value of every online transaction and the amounts will go into a welfare fund to be used for the benefit of gig workers. In this episode, Anupam Manur & Shrikrishna Upadhyaya discuss the drawbacks of the Rajasthan model of social security for gig workers. They dwell on the nature of gig jobs in India, problems with socialising social security in the form of a single fund, the responsibility of the state to offer universal social security to all its citizens, and alternative ways of securing social security for the gig workers. Readings: Indian gig workers ought to get a well-crafted social security net | Mint Don’t rush to mimic Rajasthan gig workers law Compensation for Accident Victims Isn’t a ‘Favour’ – and the State Must Be More AccountableThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Takshashila Institution, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: New Books in Architecture (LS 30 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied InformationPub date: 2023-08-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe world is filling with ever more kinds of media, in ever more contexts and formats. Glowing rectangles have become part of the scene; screens, large and small, appear everywhere. Physical locations are increasingly tagged and digitally augmented. Amid this flood, your attention practices matter more than ever. You might not be able to tune this world out. So it is worth remembering that underneath all these augmentations and data flows, fixed forms persist, and that to notice them can improve other sensibilities. In Ambient Commons, Malcolm McCullough explores the workings of attention through a rediscovery of surroundings.McCullough describes what he calls the Ambient: an increasing tendency to perceive information superabundance whole, where individual signals matter less and at least some mediation assumes inhabitable form. He explores how the fixed forms of architecture and the city play a cognitive role in the flow of ambient information. As a persistently inhabited world, can the Ambient be understood as a shared cultural resource, to be socially curated, voluntarily limited, and self-governed as if a commons? Ambient Commons invites you to look past current obsessions with smart phones to rethink attention itself, to care for more situated, often inescapable forms of information.Malcolm McCullough is Associate Professor of Architecture and Design at the University of Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architectureThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Marshall Poe, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: New Books in Science, Technology, and Society (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: Alice E. Marwick, "The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media" (Yale UP, 2023)Pub date: 2023-07-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOnline privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a matter of social justice. In The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media (Yale UP, 2023), Alice E. Marwick offers a new way of understanding how privacy is jeopardized, particularly for marginalized and disadvantaged communities—including immigrants, the poor, people of color, LGBTQ+ populations, and victims of online harassment.Marwick shows that there are few resources or regulations for preventing personal information from spreading on the internet. Through a new theory of “networked privacy,” she reveals how current legal and technological frameworks are woefully inadequate in addressing issues of privacy—often by design. Drawing from interviews and focus groups encompassing a diverse group of Americans, Marwick shows that even heavy social media users care deeply about privacy and engage in extensive “privacy work” to protect it. But people are up against the violation machine of the modern internet. Safeguarding privacy must happen at the collective level.Jake Chanenson is a computer science Ph.D. 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/science-technology-and-societyThe 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: The Irish Tech News PodcastEpisode: An Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments with Dr Oriol CaudevillaPub date: 2023-07-24Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAn Asian Perspective on CBDCs & Cross-border Payments In this episode Dr. Efi Pylarinou talks to Dr Oriol Caudevilla, an honorary fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong and a board director at the Global Impact FinTech Forum, about his research on the Digital Yuan and Cross-border payments, and CBDCs in the East.Description: A conversation with Dr Oriol Caudevilla, an important Fintech voice and a CBDC researcher. Dr Oriol Caudevilla is an influential voice in the fintech area. He is an honorary fellow at the Asian Institute of International Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong and a board director at the Global Impact FinTech Forum. He is also a well-known international speaker on central bank digital currencies and blockchain.More information about Oriol and his works are available at his website: www.oriolcaudevilla.com and LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oriolcaudevilla/ Dr. Efi Pylarinou is the No.1 Global Woman Influencer in Finance & the Data conversation by Refinitiv, a Top Thought Leader by Onalytica, and a Top Digital Futurist, Linkedin and Twitter Voice, by Engatica. A seasoned Wall Street professional & a recognized technology thought leader on innovation topics. Founder of Efi Pylarinou Advisory servicing Big Tech, Financial Services and Fintech clients. She strongly believes in building bridges between the old and the new economy. She shares her passion of content creation with her 190,000+ followers on Linkedin and 18,000+ on Twitter. Join her on the social platforms https://linktr.ee/Efiglobal The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Irish Tech News, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Max Haiven (and company)Episode: Logistics and Labour - Charmaine Chua on Amazon's supply chains and workers' resistance (WSS02)Pub date: 2023-07-18Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmazon's exploitation of data, robotics, and workers has created a breathtaking global empire. Charmaine Chua, a labour organizer with Amazonians United and an assistant professor at University of California Santa Barbara's Department of Global Studies, is uniquely well qualified to guide us through what that means, for workers and for the world. Her work focuses on the ways working people resist and build solidarity against what can seem like insurmountable odds. * https://www.charmainechua.com/ * https://www.amazoniansunited.org/ * https://www.global.ucsb.edu/people/charmaine-chua The Workers' Speculative Society is a research podcast about the world Amazon is trying to build and the workers, writers, and communities that are demanding a different future. It is part of the Worker as Futurist Project, which supports rank-and-file Amazon workers to write speculative fiction about "The World After Amazon." It is hosted by Xenia Benivolski, Max Haiven, Sarah Olutola, and Graeme Webb and is an initiative of RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab, with support from the Social Sciences a Humanities Research Council of Canada. Editing and theme music by Robert Steenkamer. * https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/sets/the-workers-speculative * http://workersspeculativesociety.org * http://reimaginingvalue.caThe 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: The MIT Press Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Moving Innovation: A History of Computer AnimationPub date: 2023-07-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationComputer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and Buzz Lightyear, between ping pong and PONG. It began in 1963 when an MIT graduate student named Ivan Sutherland created Sketchpad, the first true computer animation program. Sutherland noted: "Since motion can be put into Sketchpad drawings, it might be exciting to try making cartoons." This book, the first full-length history of CG, shows us how Sutherland's seemingly offhand idea grew into a multibillion dollar industry.In Moving Innovation, Tom Sito--himself an animator and industry insider for more than thirty years--describes the evolution of CG. His story features a memorable cast of characters--math nerds, avant-garde artists, cold warriors, hippies, video game enthusiasts, and studio executives: disparate types united by a common vision. Sito shows us how fifty years of work by this motley crew made movies like Toy Story and Avatar possible.Tom Sito has been a professional animator since 1975. One of the key players in Disney’s animation revival of the 1980s and 1990s, he worked on such classic Disney films as The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), and The Lion King (1994). He left Disney to help set up the Dreamworks Animation Unit in 1995. He is Professor of Cinema Practice in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The MIT Press, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: It Could Happen Here (LS 67 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Technology and Surveillance on Migrants, with Austin Kocher and Jake Wiener, Pt 2Pub date: 2023-07-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationJames continues his interview with Austin and Jake, this time discussing ICE's Alternatives to Detention program, and the impacts this has on privacy and the wellbeing of people in the program.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts, 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: Labor Precarity in the Digital Age with Rafael GrohmannPub date: 2023-06-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationRafael Grohmann is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies with focus on Critical Platform Studies at the University of Toronto. Leader of DigiLabour initiative. Co-director of Critical Digital Methods Institute. Researcher of Fairwork and Platform Work Inclusion Living Lab (P-WILL) projects. Founding Board Member of Labor Tech Research Network. His research interests include platform cooperativism and worker-owned platforms, work & AI, workers' organization, platform labour, communication/media and work. His research appeared in academic outlets such as New Media & Society and International Journal of Communication, and media outlets such as BBC UK, Wired, The Verge and VICE. He is currently working on a book manuscript on worker-owned platforms in Latin America.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: Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of "enshittification"Pub date: 2023-07-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmazon now feels more like a racket than an open shopping platform; you can't find posts from your friends on Facebook because it's clogged with unsolicited advertising; and Uber no longer seems like a cool, efficient taxi service, it's morphed instead into a global machine for turning gig workers into the new underclass – it's all part of a process Cory Doctorow has dubbed "enshittification". In this feature interview, the acclaimed Canadian sci-fi author, journalist and digital rights activist explains why the digital world seems so exploitative and taudry. But he has optimism for how things might be improved in the future.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: CYBER (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Big Tech Wants You to Think AI Will Kill Us AllPub date: 2023-06-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDid you know that AI is set to automate as many as a third of your tasks? In the future we’re all going to be saving a lot of time. That’s as long as no one invents artificial general intelligence that fires all the nukes or turns us all into paperclips. Which, some experts seem to think, will surely happen.Today we’re gonna talk about hype. Not the exciting kind of hype, but Criti-Hype, a kind of techno doomerism we’re often fond of here at Motherboard. Social media, biogenetics, Artificial Intelligence. These things could ruin us all. At least … that’s what people tell you when they’re selling something.Lee Vinsel is a professor of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech and the host of the People & Things podcast. His Medium post that caught our eye is: You’re Doing it Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology Hype.Stories discussed in this episode:You’re Doing It Wrong: Notes on Criticism and Technology HypeThe Open Letter to Stop 'Dangerous' AI Race Is a Huge MessWe’re recording CYBER live on Twitch. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from VICE, 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: The Dark History of the Information AgePub date: 2023-05-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationHacking and cybersecurity are evergreen issues, in the news and on Lawfare. Scott Shapiro, the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School, has a new book on how and why hacking works and what to do about it, called “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks.”Scott joined Jack Goldsmith to talk about how his pre-law-professor obsession with computers combined with his recent work in international law led him to write the book. They also discussed the lessons that the five hacks discussed in the book teach, including the limits of technology and solving cybersecurity problems, the importance of the human dimension to cybersecurity, and why we shouldn't be panicked about the state of cyber insecurity.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: Pretty Heady Stuff (LS 27 · TOP 10% what is this?)Episode: Dru Oja Jay & James Steinhoff guide us through the hype & hysteria around AIPub date: 2023-05-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationDru Oja Jay is an author, organizer and web developer who currently serves as Executive Director of CUTV and Publisher of The Breach. He’s also a co-founder of the Media Co-op and Friends of Public Services. He wrote a book with Nikolas Barry-Shaw called Paved with Good Intentions: Canada's Development NGOs from Idealism to Imperialism. James Steinhoff is an Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. His research focuses on the political economy of algorithmic technologies, data and digital labour. We talk about his stunning, insightful book Automation and Autonomy: Labour, Capital and Machines in the Artificial Intelligence Industry, which is chock full of information about the history of AI and its relationship to capitalist modes of production. I should note, too, that he co-authored a book called Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism in 2019, which is also a great book on AI. It feels as though every other day we encounter a new angle or emerging fact around machine learning, generative AI, and the incipient market for these sorts of data-driven digital products. Whether it’s the billions of investment dollars that are driving the sudden boom in startups focusing on applications of generative AI, concerns about automation and job loss, concerns about plagiarism with the saturation achieved by ChatGPT, or important discussions about the exploited labour force that makes ChatGPT’s core functions possible (an army of US contractors are being paid about $15 per hour to perform the pivotal work of data labeling that enables the platform), we’re being inundated by information about this supposed technological revolution. And that inundation is firing up the hype cycle, further fueling investment. Here we talk about the goals of the capitalist class in determining the future of AI. What will fragmentation of the labour force look like in the wake of this technological change? Are large language models going to replace human communicators? Does this signal a last shifting in the market for intellectual labour? What about all of the data that is collected to drive the creation of those large language models? Can we imagine ways to produce machine learning out of that massive corporate capture of our data? Whose data is it anyway? There are lots of changes coming, there is no question. But the question too few of us are asking is: who will be in command of that change? In the EU, there is the AI Act, which Steinhoff calls a “watershed moment” in the regulation of private business and its enclosure of AI technology. Jay reminds us that, when it comes to the potential for public and democratic control of data, even though it seems like an unfair fight, we still “have to start building power somewhere.” We also dig into fictional representations of AI. We ponder what movies like Terminator 2: Judgment Day get right in terms of AI generating its own programs—generating, as it were, its own ideas about function. Or, as James puts it, creating a situation where the “program is the output rather than the input.” Steinhoff and Jay share some insights on potential avenues of resistance, too. Not just resistance in the classical political sense, but also a kind of imaginative or intellectual resistance. They discuss their research into the history of AI, and unpack these moments of “AI winter” or “AI depression” where social or technological barriers shut down the hype cycle, they demystify machine learning, and also talk out some of the basic facts around AI-generated art and text.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pretty Heady Stuff, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Codcast (LS 31 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The promise and the pitfalls of everyday artificial intelligence.Pub date: 2023-05-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThis week on the Codcast, Jennifer Smith explores artificial intelligence’s growing prominence in our everyday lives with Dr. Nir Eisikovits, professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Eisikovits founded the school’s Applied Ethics Center (https://www.umb.edu/ethics) and has spent the past years thinking about the impact of AI on moral decision making and its unique relationship to work and creativity.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CommonWealth Beacon, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Data Nation (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: AI, Avatars, and Augmented RealityPub date: 2023-05-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLiberty Vittert and Munther Dahleh dive into the world of augmented and virtual reality this month with Professor Fox Harrell. Harrell is Professor of Digital Media & AI in both the Comparative Media Studies Program and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. Is the world ready for what's coming? Will augmented reality and virtual reality be a force for good or for evil, and what can you do to prepare yourself? You can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @mitidss. Thanks for listening to Data Nation from the MIT Institute of Data Systems and Society. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from MIT-IDSS, 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: Does Banning TikTok Make Sense? w/ Shoshana Wodinsky & Daniel GreenePub date: 2023-04-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationParis Marx is joined by Shoshana Wodinsky to discuss the unconvincing arguments being made for a TikTok ban in the United States, then by Daniel Greene to explore how the turn against Chinese technology signals a shift in US policy on the internet and technology. Shoshana Wodinsky is a freelance reporter, previously at Marketwatch and Gizmodo. She writes the Tubes newsletter. Daniel Greene is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies and the author of The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope. Follow Shoshana on Twitter at @swodinsky and Daniel at @Greene_DM.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. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network. Also mentioned in this episode: Paris wrote about the effort to ban TikTok and why it shows the US desire to protect its technological dominance. Shoshana broke down the Congressional hearing with TikTok’s CEO in her newsletter and explained how data brokers get data from many social media apps. A priest was outed through his Grindr data, which was part of a campaign by Catholic conservatives to identify priests using gay dating apps. The Strava fitness app gave away the location of secret US military bases when soldiers used the app on their runs. The FBI and Department of Homeland Security have been buying US phone data. Meta paid a firm linked to the Republican Party to smear TikTok. In Foreign Affairs, Dan Wang explained how China has developed its tech industry with insights gained through the manufacturing process. After TikTok, there’s a campaign to get Shein in the crosshairs of lawmakers. Adam Tooze wrote for Foreign Policy about why the US shouldn’t feel it can dictate the path of China’s development. 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: Philosophical Disquisitions (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: 106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentientPub date: 2023-04-11Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this episode, I chat to Robert Long about AI sentience. Robert is a philosopher that works on issues related to the philosopy of mind, cognitive science and AI ethics. He is currently a philosophy fellow at the Centre for AI Safety in San Francisco. He completed his PhD at New York University. We do a deep dive on the concept of sentience, why it is important, and how we can tell whether an animal or AI is sentient. We also discuss whether it is worth taking the topic of AI sentience seriously. You can download the episode here or listen below. You can also subscribe the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon or whatever your preferred service might be. #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } /* Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. */ Relevant LinksRobert's webpageRobert's substack Subscribe to the newsletterThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from John Danaher, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs (LS 44 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: A US-EU Trade War?Pub date: 2023-04-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMany 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 the US-Europe trade dispute, Edward Alden, the Ross Distinguished Visiting Professor at Western Washington University and the Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, joins us today. A US-EU Trade War? Episode Credits: Editor: Leo Kamer Hosts: Leo Kamer and Max Readinger Music: Zee YuenThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Hopkins Podcast on Foreign Affairs, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Real Story (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Can we control Artificial Intelligence?Pub date: 2023-04-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationLast 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 it can match or exceed human capabilities in tasks a person can do.But there are concerns this latest technology could be used to spread disinformation alongside worries over privacy, jobs and even society itself if more rules aren’t quickly introduced. Key figures in the tech industry - including Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, and Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak - have signed an open letter asking for a pause on “giant AI experiments” so that policymakers can catch up. There are potentially wide-ranging benefits to these advances. In recently published guidance on the responsible use of AI, the UK government described it as one of the "technologies of tomorrow” contributing £3.7bn ($5.6bn) to the UK economy last year alone. So what might the social impact of these increasingly powerful AI systems be? If greater regulation is needed, who is responsible? And, if we don’t control it, is there a chance that one day these machines will outsmart and replace us?Celia Hatton is joined by:Prof Yoshua Bengio - professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de MontréalBoaz Barak - the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard UniversityLindsay Gorman - a former advisor to the Biden administration on tech strategy. She's currently a Senior Fellow for Emerging Technologies at the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy in Washington DCAlso featuring:Greg Clark – a Conservative MP and chair of the UK government’s science and technology committee Stuart Russell - Professor of Computer Science at the University of CaliforniaPhoto: Ai-Da Robot poses for pictures with a self portrait in the Houses of Parliament in London before making history as the first robot to speak at the House of Lords / Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA WireProduced by Pandita Lorenz and Ellen OtzenThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC World Service, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Democracy Paradox (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Samuel Woolley on Bots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital PropagandaPub date: 2023-03-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOne 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 the project director for propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement. His most recent book is Manufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity.Key HighlightsIntroduction - 0:43Background on Technology (including Bots) - 3:00Artificial Intelligence - 10:17Democratization of Propaganda - 20:44The Legitimation of Ideas - 30:48Key LinksManufacturing Consensus: Understanding Propaganda in the Era of Automation and Anonymity by Samuel Woolley"Digital Propaganda: The Power of Influencers" in the Journal of Democracy by Samuel WoolleyCenter for Media EngagementDemocracy Paradox PodcastRichard Wike Asked Citizens in 19 Countries Whether Social Media is Good for DemocracyRonald Deibert from Citizen Lab on Cyber Surveillance, Digital Subversion, and Transnational RepressionMore Episodes from the PodcastMore InformationDemocracy GroupApes of the State created all MusicEmail the show at [email protected] on Twitter @DemParadox, Facebook, Instagram @democracyparadoxpodcast100 Books on DemocracyDemocracy Paradox is part of the Amazon Affiliates Program and earns commissions on items purchased from links to the Amazon website. All links are to recommended books discussed in the podcast or referenced in the blog.Support the showThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Justin Kempf, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: 230 | Raphaël Millière on How Artificial Intelligence ThinksPub date: 2023-03-20Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWelcome 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 increasingly prevalent in our daily lives, it's important to understand the mechanisms behind its decision-making processes. What are the algorithms and models that underpin AI, and how do they differ from human thought processes? How do machines learn from data, and what are the limitations of this learning? These are just some of the questions we'll be exploring in this episode. Raphaël will be sharing insights from his work in cognitive science, and discussing the latest developments in this rapidly evolving field. So join us as we dive into the mind of artificial intelligence and explore how it thinks. [The above introduction was artificially generated by ChatGPT.] Support Mindscape on Patreon. Raphaël Millière received a DPhil in philosophy from the University of Oxford. He is currently a Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at the Center for Science and Society, and a Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Columbia University. He also writes and organizes events aimed at a broader audience, including a recent workshop on The Challenge of Compositionality for Artificial Intelligence. Web site Columbia web page PhilPeople profile Google Scholar publications Twitter The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sean Carroll, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: KQED's Forum (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Silicon Valley Bank Failure Roils Tech and Finance IndustriesPub date: 2023-03-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAfter 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 repaid, that has not stopped turmoil in the market. Shares in San Francisco-based First Republic Bank dropped over 60% on Monday with other bank stocks following suit. Added to this are last week’s failures of both Signature Bank, a regional bank in New York closed by regulators this weekend, and Silvergate, a banking concern favored by cryptocurrency investors. We’ll talk about how these banking issues are impacting the Bay Area and what it means for customers and the tech industry.Guests:Natasha Mascarenhas, senior reporter, TechCrunchMark Calvey, senior reporter covering banking and finance, San Francisco Business TimesMargaret O'Mara, historian of the modern United States, University of Washington - She writes and teaches about the growth of the high-tech economy, the history of American politics, and the connections between the two.Lizette Chapman, reporter, Bloomberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KQED, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: The Performance Audit ReportEpisode: 24 | Cathy O'Neil, Algorithm Auditor, Author of WMathDPub date: 2023-02-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationOur 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 importance of post-deployment testing to ensure there are no unintended adverse outcomes. Setting standards: the need for industry-wide standards so that regulators can ensure there is no bias or discrimination in how algorithms operate. Laggers and leaders: the four big industries/domains using algorithms that need to step up audit in their space and how law-makers and regulators are catching up.Emerging AI, e.g. language models/chatbots - why trust by users is key, and the pros and cons of using these models.LinksCathy's company, ORCAA Weapons of Math Destruction (book) This episode's web page: https://pareports.com/podcast/24 About this podcast The podcast for performance auditors.Hosted by Conor McGarrity and Yusuf Moolla.Produced by PA Reports - Performance Audit Research. Get updates New episodes, and a fortnightly newsletter with a selection of PA reports and practices from audit offices. https://pareports.com/#cta-subscribe This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit performanceaudit.substack.comThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Conor McGarrity and Yusuf Moolla, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Discourse ZAEpisode: Protopia, Not UtopiaPub date: 2023-03-16Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationBronwyn 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 “longtermism” movement. Bronwyn Williams is a futurist, economist, trend analyst and host of The Small Print. Her day job as a partner at Flux Trends involves helping business leaders to use foresight to design the future they want to live and work in. You may have seen her talking about Transhumanism or Tikok on Carte Blanche, or heard her talking about trends on 702 or CNBC Africa where she is a regular expert commentator. When she's not talking to brands and businesses about the future, you will probably find her curled up somewhere with a (preferably paperback) book. She tweets at @bronwynwilliams. Twitter Flux Trends Website Monika Bielskyte is a futures researcher working at the intersection of science/tech-culture-politics. Her clients include Google, Nike, Universal, Disney Marvel, BBC, and Microsoft. She is currently developing @protopiafutures — a platform for research & creative collaborations challenging & offering alternatives to dystopian/utopian stereotypes. Protopia explores visions of radically hopeful & inclusive futures centering Queerness, Indigeneity, Disability & previously marginalized cultural perspectives. Twitter LinkedIn Protopia Futures Subscribe to our Substack. Follow us on Social Media: YouTube LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Instagram Subscribe to the Discourse ZA Podcast: iTunes Stitcher Spotify RSS feed The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Discourse ZA, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

Podcast: Future Histories (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: S02E41 - Antoinette Rouvroy on Algorithmic GovernmentalityPub date: 2023-03-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFuture 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 Political Cybernetics”. Future Histories International Find all English episodes of Future Histories here: https://futurehistories-international.com/ and subscribe to the Future Histories International RSS-Feed (English episodes only) Collaborative Podcast Transcription If you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at: [email protected] (German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ: shorturl.at/eL578 Shownotes Antoinette Rouvroy (University of Namur): https://unamur.academia.edu/AntoinetteRouvroy Antoinette Rouvroy (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Antoinette_Rouvroy Antoinette on Twitter: https://twitter.com/arouvroy Rouvroy, Antoinette. 2016. Algorithmic Governmentality: Radicalization and Immune Strategy of Capitalism and Neoliberalism?, trans. Benoît Dillet, La Deleuziana 3: "Life and Number", pp 30-36. [PDF available] http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rouvroy2eng.pdf Rouvroy, Antoinette & Berns, Thomas. 2013. Algorithmic Governmentality and Prospects of Emancipation: Disparateness as a Precondition for Individuation through Relationships?, trans. Elizabeth Libbrecht, Réseaux 177, [3] [PDF available] https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_RES_177_0163--algorithmic-governmentality-and-prospect.htm?contenu=article Critical Data Lab: https://www.criticaldatalab.org/ Political Cybernetics Workshop: https://philtech.univie.ac.at/political-cybernetics-workshop/ Further Shownotes Félix Guattari (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9lix_Guattari McKenzie Wark (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/McKenzie_Wark The Vectoralist Class - McKenzie Wark: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336347/the-vectoralist-class/ Karen Barad: https://people.ucsc.edu/~kbarad/about.html Castoriadis, Cornelius. 1987. The Imaginary Institution of Society. The MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262031349/the-imaginary-institution-of-society/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O7_YswJOXY Thomas Berns: https://www.editions-ulb.be/en/author/?person_id=5 Gary Backer (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Becker B. F. Skinner (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinner Amazon Workers Against Surveillance: https://organizeawas.de/en/ Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas. 1971. The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press.: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674281653 Adolphe Quetelet (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Quetelet Konings, Martijn. 2018. Capital and time: For a new critique of neoliberal reason. Stanford University Press.: https://www.sup.org/books/cite/?id=29233 David Hume (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume Nick Land (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Land Alain Supiot (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Supiot Donna Haraway (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Donna_Haraway Slavoy Žižek (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics [German] S02E36 | Thomas Lemke zum Regieren der Dinge: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e36-thomas-lemke-zum-regieren-der-dinge/ [German] S02E17 | Robert Seyfert zu algorithmischer Sozialität: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e17-robert-seyfert-zu-algorithmischer-sozialitaet/ [German] S02E04 | Vincent August zu technologischem Regieren: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e04-vincent-august-zu-technologischem-regieren/ [German] S01E04 | Felix Stalder zu Machtausübung durch Algorithmen: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e04-felix-stalder-zu-machtausuebung-durch-algorithmen/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at [email protected] and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Mastodon: @[email protected] or on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6yw www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords: #AntoinetteRouvroy, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #FutureHistoriesLive, #Podcast, #Interview, #algorithmicGovernmentality, #algorithms, #governmentality, #digitalizati

Podcast: This Machine Kills (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: 236. Butterflies on History’s Collage (ft. Malcolm Harris)Pub date: 2023-03-02Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe 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 Shockley—that have had very important impacts (for worse and worse) on the direction of modern society, but have largely been looked back on in very myopic ways. We only scratch the surface of the amazingly detailed histories, social maps, and historical materialist analysis that Malcolm digs up in his book. Buy a copy right now! ••• Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World | Malcolm Harris: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo-alto/9780316592031/ ••• Follow Malcolm: https://twitter.com/BigMeanInternet Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (www.twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (www.twitter.com/braunestahl)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: The Digital Human (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: CuratePub date: 2023-02-27Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn 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 don't explain why. How have these bits of code reshaped our relationship with culture?In this episode Aleks discovers the very different values and meanings in what a human, or an algorithm chooses to present to us. Unpacks the anxiety of what our raw data tells us about our desires, compared to what we believe about ourselves. Finds out how gaming the algorithm to succeed may result in creative stagnation, and a narrowed view of the world. But also how some algorithms could break us free of the boxes we have been slotted into, if things could be done a little differently.The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC Radio 4, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.