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Empire of AI: Dreams & Nightmares in Sam Altman's Open AI with KAREN HAO
Season 15 Episode 1175
“My book is called Empire of AI because I'm trying to articulate this argument and illustrate that these companies operate exactly like empires of old. I highlight four features that essentially enca…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Healing, Connection & Creativity in the Age of AI - ETGAR KERET on Why We Need Stories in Times of Crisis - Highlights
Season 15 Episode 1174
“I feel that when you don't tell your story, it's as if you have a limited existence. We can always have some kind of choice, but I'm saying that the story we choose may be the most crucial choice th…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
AI & Finding Humanity Through Storytelling with Author & Filmmaker ETGAR KERET
Season 15 Episode 1173
“When I write my stories, I don't want to solve things in life. I just want to persuade myself that there is a way out. Maybe I am in a cell, maybe I'm trapped. Maybe I won't make it, but if I can im…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
What's Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis with MALCOLM HARRIS
Season 15
“One day, I woke up with this concept of oil being tied up in our lives in ways that we don't talk about. It’s sort of a value-theoretical approach to climate change and the climate crisis. Something…
Published on 4 months ago
Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ & the Capitalism of the Far Right with QUINN SLOBODIAN
Season 14
“The origin was really trying to make sense of that 2016-2017 moment and to ask whether the alt-right was, as we were being told, a return to the 1930s, a kind of awakening of the sleeping beast of w…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
AI, UFOs, Perception & Reality with Artist, Geographer, Author TREVOR PAGLEN - Highlights
Season 15 Episode 1163
“If we look at the entire history of the human experience, if you saw some text or you heard some spoken language, you could 100 percent reliably infer that there was a human who created that. Our ex…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
How AI is Shaping Perception, How Deception is Sculpting Our Reality with Artist TREVOR PAGLEN
Season 15 Episode 1162
“There's a word for this brain rot, right? I think that's very real. There are studies coming out now that are showing that the more and more of our cognitive labor we offload to AI systems, the less…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Abolish Silicon Valley—How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism with WENDY LIU
Season 15 Episode 1155
“Abolishing Silicon Valley means freeing the development of technology from a system that will always relegate it to a subordinate role, that of entrenching existing power relations. It means designi…
Published on 5 months ago
Life As No One Knows It - Exploring AIR Aspen with NICOLA LEES - Highlights
Season 15 Episode 1154
“For us, I think it really is about trust and commitments, and I don't think that has necessarily changed over the years. As we work on that, obviously, we are very much invested in how we can engage…
Published on 5 months ago
Writing, AI & The Future of Humanity w/ VIET THANH NGUYEN
Season 15 Episode 1153
“As a writer, I do believe that art and literature in and of themselves are important. I'm going to keep on writing novels, and one of the most important reasons why is because, as you mentioned, lan…
Published on 5 months ago