Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEpisode 36: About That 'Dangerous Capabilities' Fanfiction (feat. Ali Alkhatib), June 24 2024
Episode 36
When is a research paper not a research paper? When a big tech company uses a preprint server as a means to dodge peer review -- in this case, of the…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 35: AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire (feat. Safiya Noble), June 10 2024
Episode 35
You've already heard about the rock-prescribing, glue pizza-suggesting hazards of Google's AI overviews. But the problems with the internet's most-us…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 34: Senate Dot Roadmap Dot Final Dot No Really Dot Docx, June 3 2024
Episode 34
The politicians are at it again: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's series of industry-centric forums last year have birthed a "roadmap" for futu…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 33: Much Ado About 'AI' 'Deception', May 20 2024
Episode 33
Will the LLMs somehow become so advanced that they learn to lie to us in order to achieve their own ends? It's the stuff of science fiction, and in s…
1 year, 9 months ago
Episode 32: A Flood of AI Hell, April 29 2024
Episode 32
AI Hell froze over this winter and now a flood of meltwater threatens to drown Alex and Emily. Armed with raincoats and a hastily-written sea shanty*…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 31: Science Is a Human Endeavor (feat. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri), April 15 2024
Episode 31
Will AI someday do all our scientific research for us? Not likely. Drs. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri join for a takedown of the hype of "self-driv…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 30: Marc's Miserable Manifesto, April 1 2024
Episode 30
Dr. Timnit Gebru guest-hosts with Alex in a deep dive into Marc Andreessen's 2023 manifesto, which argues, loftily, in favor of maximizing the use of…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 29: How LLMs Are Breaking the News (feat. Karen Hao), March 25 2024
Episode 29
Award-winning AI journalist Karen Hao joins Alex and Emily to talk about why LLMs can't possibly replace the work of reporters -- and why the hype is…
1 year, 11 months ago
Episode 28: LLMs Are Not Human Subjects, March 4 2024
Episode 28
Alex and Emily put on their social scientist hats and take on the churn of research papers suggesting that LLMs could be used to replace human labor …
2 years ago
Episode 27: Asimov's Laws vs. 'AI' Death-Making (w/ Annalee Newitz & Charlie Jane Anders), February 19 2024
Episode 27
Science fiction authors and all-around tech thinkers Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders join this week to talk about Isaac Asimov's oft-cited and…
2 years, 1 month ago