Digital Kallipolis

Clement Ngu  is a Brussels-based journalist and contributing writer for Nikkei Asia, covering EU-Asia relations, technology, trade, and geoeconomics. His work explores how global politics, digital policy, and economic power are shaping and being reshaped by AI development and deployment. In this conversation we answer the ultimate question:  What is the global AI race really about: technology, mon...

This conversation with Ziyue Wang explores some of the most pressing questions at the frontier of AI safety: what it means for powerful AI systems to be safe enough to deploy, how companies model misuse risks such as cyberattacks, CBRN threats, manipulation, loss of control, and malicious actors, and why problems like AI sandbagging remain difficult to detect and prevent. Ziyue also reflects on th...

In this episode, we meet Adrian Wisnicki , University of Nebraska AI Institute Co-Director, a Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Faculty Fellow of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, and the Digital Humanities Program Coordinator at UNL. In this conversation, Adrian familiarizes us with the concept of Digital Humanities and why do they matter. He discu...

#DigitalKallipolis #AI #BottomUpAI In this episode, we meet Esosa Ohonba, JD, MPH, a founder and CEO of Layman, a justice-tech company building AI tools that help individuals and lawyers navigate civil legal processes. A graduate of NYU School of Law, Esosa launched Layman to expand access to justice for self-represented litigants and underserved communities. His work bridges law, public health, a...

In this first episode of Digital Kallipolis, we meet Maida Maya Salkanović, a journalist, anti-misinformation and anti-deepfake upstander, and human rights activist. In 2020, Maya and I discussed the future of labor and digitalization at a futuristic conference more than two years before the generative AI boom that began in November 2022. Now, in 2026, we return to that conversation to explore the...