Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTranshumanism and Existential Risk with Josh Schuster and Derek Woods
Ever worried that AI will wipe out humanity? Ever dreamed of merging with AI? Well these are the primary concerns of transhumanism and existential ri…
3 years, 8 months ago
The Feedback Loop between Tech Innovation and Science Fiction with Chen Qiufan
Science fiction writer Chen Qiufan ( Stanley Chen), author of Waste Tide, discusses the feedback loop between science fiction and innovation, what ha…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Exorcism of Emotion in Rational Science (and AI) with Lorraine Daston
In this episode, the historian of science Lorraine Daston explains why science has long been allergic to emotion, which is seen to be the enemy of tr…
3 years, 9 months ago
Queer Data with Kevin Guyan
How should governments collect personal data? In this episode, we talk to Dr Kevin Guyan about the census, and the best ways of asking people to iden…
3 years, 10 months ago
Data Activism Against Everyday Racism with Mónica Moreno Figueroa and Ella McPherson
In this episode we speak to two brilliant professors here at Cambridge, Mónica Moreno Figueroa and Ella McPherson about a data project they launched …
3 years, 10 months ago
Why Machine Learning is Political with Louise Amoore
In this episode, we talk to Louise Amoore, professor of political geography at Durham and expert in how machine learning algorithms are transforming …
3 years, 10 months ago
Reproductive Technologies and Feminist Research Ethics with Sarah Franklin
In this episode we talk to Sarah Franklin, a leading figure in feminist science studies and the sociology of reproduction. In this tour de force of I…
3 years, 11 months ago
Anti-Asian Racism across Time and Space with Michelle N. Huang
In this episode we chat to Michelle N. Huang, Assistant Professor of English and Asian American literature at Northwestern University. Chatting with …
3 years, 11 months ago
Understanding Tech Ethics from the Ground Up with Sareeta Amrute
In this episode we talk to Sareeta Amrute, Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington who studies race, labour, and class in globa…
4 years ago
Techno-Feminisms and Why Nature is Far Stranger Than We Think with Sophie Lewis
In this episode Sophie, author of Full Surrogacy Now and self-defined wayward Marxist, talks about defining good technology for the whole of the bios…
4 years ago