Podcast Episodes

AI, Tech & The Future of Museums - STEPHEN REILY, Founding Director of Remuseum on Transforming Cultural Spaces

Season 2

“The opportunity is that we have never had a public that is more passionate and obsessed with visual imagery. If the owners of the best original imagery in the world can't figure out how to take adva…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

How Our Brains Choose What to Learn & Navigate Uncertainty - Highlights - JACQUELINE GOTTLIEB

Season 2

“We have an onslaught of information the moment we open our eyes. We evolved to deal with an onslaught of information, and we are masters at focusing and ignoring vast amounts of information. Now, AI…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

AI, Cognitive Bias & the Future of Journalism w/ Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Season 2

“There have been some alarming experiments that show AI arguments are better at persuading people than humans are at persuading people. I think that's partly because humans tend to make the arguments…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

AI, Populism & Consumer Society with Historian FRANK TRENTMANN

Season 2

“The bridge between Out of the Darkness and my previous work, which looked at the transformation of consumer culture in the world, is morality. One thing that became clear in writing Empire of Things…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Is AI capable of creating a protest song that disrupts oppression & inspires social change? - JAKE FERGUSON, ANTHONY JOSEPH & JERMAIN JACKMAN

Season 13

“There's something raw about The Architecture of Oppression, both part one and part two. There's a raw realness and authenticity in those songs that AI can't create. There's a lived experience that A…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

The SDGs, AI & UN Summit of the Future - GUILLAUME LAFORTUNE - VP, UN SDSN, Paris

Season 2

“The SDSN has been set up to mobilize research and science for the Sustainable Development Goals. Each year, we aim to provide a fair and accurate assessment of countries' progress on the 17 Sustaina…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

AI & How Utopian Visions Shape Our Reality & Future - Highlights - S. D. CHROSTOWSKA

Season 2

“There’s the existing AI and the dream of artificial general intelligence that is aligned with our values and will make our lives better. Certainly, the techno-utopian dream is that it will lead us t…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Utopia in the Age of Survival with S. D. CHROSTOWSKA

Season 2

As Surrealism turns 100, what can it teach us about the importance of dreaming and creating a better society? Will we wake up from the consumerist dream sold to us by capitalism and how would that ch…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

AI’s Role in Society, Culture & Climate with CHARLIE HERTZOG YOUNG

Season 2

The planet’s well-being unites us all, from ecosystems to societies, global systems to individual health. How is planetary health linked to mental health?

Charlie Hertzog Young is a researcher, write…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

The Future of Energy - RICHARD BLACK - Director, Policy & Strategy, Ember - Fmr. BBC Environment Correspondent

Season 13

Richard Black spent 15 years as a science and environment correspondent for the BBC World Service and BBC News, before setting up the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit. He now lives in Berlin and is…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago