Shane

Second Orders

Technology EN ↓ 4 episodes

Second Orders is a series of conversations with thinkers, tinkerers and theorists about pivotal changes in science, technology, law and culture, their unintended consequences and what they reveal about how we live and cooperate at every scale.

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Shane

Episodes

Art forgery may be the first job that AI kills - Noah Charney 20.06.2026 1:13:45

ABOUT THE EPISODE Noah Charney is a professor of Art History at the American University of Rome and the University of Ljubljana, the founder of the Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) and the prolific mind behind a wide body of books and articles whose range is exceeded only by their depth of insight and lucidity of writing. His work in the field of art crime has been praised i...

AI could help you meet God, but will it replace religion? - Brant Entrekin 05.05.2026 1:09:10

ABOUT THE EPISODE Brant Entrekin is a philosopher, currently pursuing his PHD in philosophy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he also teaches. His work spans social-political philosophy with a focus on epistemology, philosophy of social justice and religious studies. His paper, "AI-mediated mystical experiences" is a deeply interesting and provocative meditation on meditation, in wh...

AI learned language backwards and we need a new humanities to understand it - Leif Weatherby 27.04.2026 1:40:18

ABOUT THE EPISODE Leif Weatherby is an associate professor of German at New York University, founding director of the Digital Theory Lab and Director of Digital Humanities. His research spans dialectics, semiotics, the nature of data and computing, and problems of political economy after the Industrial Revolution. He's also written several books, the latest of which is Language Machines: Cultural...

The Golden Age of middle management is coming - Michael Todasco 11.04.2026 1:31:16

Michael Todasco led PayPal's Innovation Labs and now researches AI at San Diego State University. We explore what the one-person billion-dollar company actually means for incumbents, moats, and consumer trust, why the hollowing out of middle management might not play out the way people expect, and what happens when agents can spin up and run businesses with almost no human involvement.