Intelligence Explosion: Managing the coming wave of hybrid intelligence

In this final episode of Season 1 of The Intelligence Explosion podcast host Tamim Asey sits down with Professor Nick Srnicek of King’s College London who is a leading authority and one of the sharpest minds dissecting the intersection of artificial intelligence, capitalism and power. Prof. Srnicek, author of the upcoming book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI, unpacks how the race f...

In this episode, host Tamim Asey sits down with Associate Professor Lauren Gould, a leading scholar of conflict studies at Utrecht University. She is the Project Leader of the Intimacies of Remote Warfare and Realities of Algorithmic Warfare research programs and a Senior Researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Her publications and projects critically explore the...

In this episode of the Intelligence Explosion podcast, host Tamim Asey sits down with Dr. Janos Mark Szakolczai, author of the forthcoming book Onlife Criminology: Virtual Crimes and Real Harms (Bristol University Press, 2025). Together they explore how the digital and physical worlds have collapsed into one, creating new forms of crime, harm, and power. The discussion covers everyday surveillance...

In this episode of the Intelligence Explosion podcast, host Tamim Asey is joined by Professor Andrew Hoskins, Professor of AI, Memory & War at the University of Edinburgh. A leading authority on digital memory and conflict, Professor Hoskins has written extensively on how technology transforms the ways societies record, remember and forget. He currently leads the ERC/UKRI-funded WARSHARE proje...

Autonomous systems are no longer the stuff of science fiction - they are already reshaping our lives in many ways . In this episode of Intelligence Explosion, host Tamim Asey sits down with Dr. Zena Assaad award-winning researcher, engineer and podcast host of Responsible Bytes whose groundbreaking work explores the promise, peril and paradox of autonomy and human-machine teaming. Dr. Assaad has b...

Artificial intelligence is no longer just a future concept in humanitarian work — it’s already reshaping how crises are predicted, aid is delivered and decisions are made on the ground. In this episode of the Intelligence Explosion podcast, host Tamim Asey with guests unpack the landmark July 2025 report, “How are humanitarians using artificial intelligence in 2025? Mapping Current Practice and Fu...

In this thought-provoking episode of Intelligence Explosion, host Tamim Asey speaks with Dr. Sebastian Loewe, Director of UX Design at Virtual Identity and co-author of Design und künstliche Intelligenz, about his pioneering vision for the Empathetic Web—a future where our digital environments understand, anticipate and respond to human emotions. We explore how the concept emerged from his work in...

In this inaugural episode of Intelligence Explosion, host Tamim Asey speaks with Professor Elke Schwarz, a political theorist at Queen Mary University London and Vice Chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control. She is the author of the acclaimed book Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies and a leading expert on the intersection of emerging technologies, cognition and...

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