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Property Pieties - Luce deLire on digital tyrants, trans panics, and revolutionary hospitalities 08.05.2025

Podcast : Max Haiven (and company) Episode : Property Pieties - Luce deLire on digital tyrants, trans panics, and revolutionary hospitalities Pub date : 2025-04-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode we talked with Luce about her latest work on digitalised tyranny. About how private property structures the terms of the contract...

Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao 08.05.2025

Podcast : Big Technology Podcast (LS 54 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Why China's AI Strategy Just Might Work — With Grace Shao Pub date : 2025-04-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Grace Shao is a Hong Kong-based writer and analyst, and author of AI Proem on Substack newsletter. She joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss Ch...

#90: Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology 25.04.2025

Podcast : Critical Media Studies (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : #90: Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology Pub date : 2025-04-04 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization In this episode Barry and Mike take a different approach to Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology. Rather than a traditional "what does all this...

Inside the Chip-Making Machine the World Can’t Live Without 13.04.2025

Podcast : WSJ Tech News Briefing (LS 60 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Inside the Chip-Making Machine the World Can’t Live Without Pub date : 2025-03-22 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Our modern world depends on chips, and our most modern chips depend on complex machines that use a process called extreme ultraviolet lithograp...

A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and Democracy 09.04.2025

Podcast : The Tech Policy Press Podcast (LS 38 · TOP 2% what is this? ) Episode : A Conversation with Dr. Alondra Nelson on AI and Democracy Pub date : 2025-03-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Dr. Alondra Nelson holds the Harold F. Linder Chair and leads the  Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab  at the Institute f...

AI Hype Enters Its Geopolitics Era w/ Timnit Gebru 24.03.2025

Podcast : Tech Won't Save Us (LS 58 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : AI Hype Enters Its Geopolitics Era w/ Timnit Gebru Pub date : 2025-03-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris 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 prom...

Public, Private and DOGE - Hybrid Sovereignty with Swati Srivastava 06.03.2025

Podcast : The Anti-Dystopians (LS 24 · TOP 10% what is this? ) Episode : Public, Private and DOGE - Hybrid Sovereignty with Swati Srivastava Pub date : 2025-02-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week, Alina Utrata talks to Swati Srivastava, an Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University and a Faculty Asso...

On the Economics, Geopolitics and Technological Challenges of AI 01.03.2025

Podcast : EconoFact Chats (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : On the Economics, Geopolitics and Technological Challenges of AI Pub date : 2025-02-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, improvements in large language models have continued at an impressive clip, driving a surge of inves...

AI and Public Services 20.02.2025

Podcast : UCL Uncovering Politics (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this? ) Episode : AI and Public Services Pub date : 2025-02-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Artificial intelligence is increasingly being touted as a game-changer across various sectors, including public services. But while AI presents significant opportunities for improvi...

After DeepSeek: How China outsmarted America 14.02.2025

Podcast : 7am (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : After DeepSeek: How China outsmarted America Pub date : 2025-02-03 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization The 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 globa...

The impact of big tech on Brazilian politics with Marianna Poyares 14.02.2025

Podcast : Brazil Unfiltered (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this? ) Episode : The impact of big tech on Brazilian politics with Marianna Poyares Pub date : 2025-01-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Marianna Poyares is a Fritz Fellow at Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology. She is a critical theorist working on the ethics of new te...

The Environmental Inequity of AI 07.02.2025

Podcast : Building Local Power (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : The Environmental Inequity of AI Pub date : 2024-12-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization AI 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 o...

Episode 2318: Mike Pepi on how to escape from the digital dystopia of platform capitalism 29.01.2025

Podcast : Keen On America (LS 43 · TOP 1.5% what is this? ) Episode : Episode 2318: Mike Pepi on how to escape from the digital dystopia of platform capitalism Pub date : 2025-01-26 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Is it a bird, is it a plane? No, it’s another anti tech book. In Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia , digital a...

Algorithms create a dull conformity — off and online 22.01.2025

Podcast : Future Tense (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Algorithms create a dull conformity — off and online Pub date : 2025-01-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Algorithmic feeds are meant to personalise our online experiences, but increasingly they're flattening our culture and fostering a dull conformity, according to...

Live! Silicon Valley's Class War and the New Defense-Industrial Complex w/ Max Read | Ep. 215 15.01.2025

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. 215 Pub date : 2025-01-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization What is the role of crypto and AI in the new American oligarchy? What does it mean that Mark Zuckerberg has...

Big money, big tech: The new rules of the political playbook 09.01.2025

Podcast : The Sunday Magazine (LS 51 · TOP 0.5% what is this? ) Episode : Big money, big tech: The new rules of the political playbook Pub date : 2025-01-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization As tech giants end the year by cozying up to Donald Trump, and TikTok faces the possibility of demise - 2024's biggest tech stories expose growin...

How the Hedge Fund Magnetar Is Financing the AI Boom 18.12.2024

Podcast : Odd Lots (LS 64 · TOP 0.05% what is this? ) Episode : How the Hedge Fund Magnetar Is Financing the AI Boom Pub date : 2024-12-09 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization AI 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...

AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli 11.12.2024

Podcast : The Verso Podcast (LS 45 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : AI, Automation, and Algorithms | Matteo Pasquinelli Pub date : 2024-11-28 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This 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 har...

AI, Art and New Technology: Threat or Opportunity 11.12.2024

Podcast : Commonwealth Club of California Podcast (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : AI, Art and New Technology: Threat or Opportunity Pub date : 2024-12-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Explore the intersection of art, artificial intelligence, and new technology. Through the diverse perspectives of three incredible artists...

Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian? 26.11.2024

Podcast : Tech News Radio: Cutting-Edge Updates Episode : Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian? Pub date : 2024-11-21 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization https://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://v...

Making Sense of a Pro-Tech Trump Presidency w/ Brian Merchant 20.11.2024

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 Merchant Pub date : 2024-11-14 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Brian Merchant to discuss the fallout from the US election, what it means for the tech industry, and more importantly, wh...

AI in Hiring: The Promise, Perils, and Unintended Consequences 14.11.2024

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 Consequences Pub date : 2024-11-07 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This conversation features an interview with Hilke Schellman, author of "The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who...

Angela Zhang: What's Really Happening with AI (and AI Governance) in China 07.11.2024

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 China Pub date : 2024-10-31 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization This week, Professor Werbach is joined by USC Law School professor Angela Zhang, an expert on China's approach to the technolo...

The Threat of Data Colonialism w/ Ulises A. Mejias & Nick Couldry 30.10.2024

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 Couldry Pub date : 2024-10-24 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Paris Marx is joined by Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry to discuss how Silicon Valley's extractive data collection regime and the powe...

Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism 29.10.2024

Podcast : KPFA - Letters and Politics (LS 48 · TOP 1% what is this? ) Episode : Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism Pub date : 2024-10-16 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarization Part 1. Fascism, History, and Education Guest: Jason   Stanley   is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale Universit...

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