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Podcast · Paris Marx · Silicon Valley wants to shape our future, but why should we let it? Every Thursday, Paris Marx is joined by a new guest to critically examine the tech industry, its big promises, and the people behind them. Tech Won’t Save Us challenges the notion that tech alone can drive our world forward by showing that separating tech from politics has consequences for us all, especially the most vulnerable. It’s not your usual tech podcast.

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor are the authors of AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference.

Podcast · Dreaming Beyond AI · Dreaming Beyond AI is a platform for critical and constructive knowledge, visionary fiction, speculative art, and community organizing around Artificial Intelligence. In this podcast series, we're all about opening up new dimensions of interaction and challenging the current perceptions and narratives around AI. We want to reclaim technology as a space for marginalized bodies and build an archive of alternative realities.

Knowing Machines is a research project tracing the histories, practices, and politics of how machine learning systems are trained to interpret the world.

Artificial intelligence is the hottest technology of our time. But what is it? It sounds like a stupid question, but it’s one that’s never been more urgent. MIT Technology Review takes a deep dive into the competing answers from titans of industry and helps us understand how we got here—and why you should care, no matter who you are.

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Code Green is a media series that separates the heat from the hype around climate tech in Asia

Learn how the smartest people in the world are using AI to think, create, and relate. Each week I interview founders, filmmakers, writers, investors, and others about how they use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Midjourney in their work and in their lives. We screen-share through their historical chats and then experiment with AI live on the show. Join us to discover how AI is changing how we think about our world—and ourselves. For more essays, interviews, and experiments at the forefront of AI: https://every.to/chain-of-thought?sort=newest.

In this two part episode, we sit down with Ploipailin Flynn, founding member of AI x Design, a global community and decentralized studio for critical and creative AI research & design. In this conversation, we discuss why understanding how AI systems are built is crucial for creating better outcomes and why measuring the outcomes of AI in communities and tracking deployed models is essential. Ploi shares her expertise on how designing user interfaces for different stakeholders can facilitate feedback, uphold data rights and why involving outside organizations can help evaluate the fairness of AI systems, while also creating defensible positions on company's responsibility with AI.

Listen to this episode from FUTURE-PROOF on Spotify. DEEP-DIVE is a series of public talks, each delving deeper into a specific topic already highlighted by a project at Blessed Foundation, enabling the nuances of important questions to be explored. The first DEEP-DIVE episode coincides with the exhibition currently on display at Blessed Foundation - RAPTURE by Andrea Khôra. We explore key themes in Andrea’s work, focusing on psychedelics and AI. Hear from Shaneihu Yawanawá, Utxi Yawanawá, Yawatume Yawanawá and Maria Fernanda Gebara, who share their views on the psychedelics boom from the perspective of indigenous traditions and ethics. We're also joined by Neşe Devenot, whose research was a major influence in Andrea’s work, offering a critical assessment of the collision of psychedelics and capitalism. With further insights from Andrea Khôra and Sylwia Serafinowicz (Managing Director at Blessed Foundation), dive into this episode for an inspiring and thought-provoking exploration of ancestral intelligence vs artificial intelligence. RAPTURE by Andrea Khôra is showing at Blessed Foundation until 27th June 2024. Contact info@blessed-foundation.org for more information.

Join Dr Eleanor Drage and Dr Kerry McInerney as they ask the experts: what is good technology? Is ‘good’ technology even possible? And how can feminism help us work towards it? Each week, they invite scholars, industry practitioners, activists, and more to provide their unique perspective on what feminism can bring to the tech industry and the way that we think about technology. With each conversation, The Good Robot asks how feminism can provide new perspectives on technology’s biggest problems.

The 15th edition of Tactics&Practice explores how the ambiguous quality of data can be used as a tool to produce real-world outcomes. Can the act of purposely creating data provide agency within data-driven systems? Is it possible to manipulate data to create specific effects? (Un)real Data – Real Effects is a programme by !Mediengruppe Bitnik […]

Rachel and Adio Dinika of DAIR Institute discuss the challenges faced by platform laborers around the world, including unfair compensation and job insecurity.

Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜. In Proceedings of FAccT 2021, pp.610

Listen to this episode from The Ezra Klein Show on Spotify. A.I.-generated art has flooded the internet, and a lot of it is derivative, even boring or offensive. But what could it look like for artists to collaborate with A.I. systems in making art that is actually generative, challenging, transcendent?Holly Herndon offered one answer with her 2019 album “PROTO.” Along with Mathew Dryhurst and the programmer Jules LaPlace, she built an A.I. called “Spawn” trained on human voices that adds an uncanny yet oddly personal layer to the music. Beyond her music and visual art, Herndon is trying to solve a problem that many creative people are encountering as A.I. becomes more prominent: How do you encourage experimentation without stealing others’ work to train A.I. models? Along with Dryhurst, Jordan Meyer and Patrick Hoepner, she co-founded Spawning, a company figuring out how to allow artists — and all of us creating content on the internet — to “consent” to our work being used as training data.In this conversation, we discuss how Herndon collaborated with a human chorus and her “A.I. baby,” Spawn, on “PROTO”; how A.I. voice imitators grew out of electronic music and other musical genres; why Herndon prefers the term “collective intelligence” to “artificial intelligence”; why an “opt-in” model could help us retain more control of our work as A.I. trawls the internet for data; and much more.Mentioned:“Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt” by Holly Herndon“xhairymutantx” by Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, for the Whitney Museum of Art“Fade” by Holly Herndon“Swim” by Holly Herndon“Jolene” by Holly Herndon and Holly+“Movement” by Holly Herndon“Chorus” by Holly Herndon“Godmother” by Holly Herndon“The Precision of Infinity” by Jlin and Philip GlassHolly+Book Recommendations:Intelligence and Spirit by Reza NegarestaniChildren of Time by Adrian TchaikovskyPlurality by E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang and ⿻ CommunityThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our senior editor is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Rollin Hu, Elias Isquith and Kristin Lin. Original music by Isaac Jones. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. And special thanks to Sonia Herrero and Jack Hamilton.

Listen to this episode from Hard Fork on Spotify. This week, the companies building artificial intelligence are facing a limit to what training data is publicly available on the internet. Will that stop them from building God? Then, a new bipartisan national privacy law proposal just dropped. We ask what’s in it. And finally, ByteDance is building new apps instead of fighting Congress’s TikTok ban.Today’s Guests:Trevor Hughes, president and C.E.O. of the International Association of Privacy ProfessionalsAdditional Reading:How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I.For Data-Guzzling A.I. Companies, the Internet Is Too SmallLawmakers unveil sprawling plan to expand online privacy protectionsTikTok Turns to Nuns, Veterans and Ranchers in Marketing BlitzWe want to hear from you. Email us at hardfork@nytimes.com.Find “Hard Fork” on YouTube and TikTok.

Listen to this episode from The Radical AI Podcast on Spotify. In this 4th episode of Measurementality we'll be "identifying what counts in the algorithmic age" by analyzing how existing metrics regarding human wellbeing along with environmental flourishing are being globally measured today.   Laura Musikanski is the Executive Director of The Happiness Alliance and Chair of IEEE 7010-2020 Jonathan Stray is a Visiting Scholar at Center for Human-Compatible AI and a former research partner at The Partnership on AI as well as being the author of Aligning AI to Human Values means Picking the Right Metrics

Listen to this episode from DCODE Conversations on Spotify. Interfaces are not what they used to be. They have extended beyond surfaces, buttons, and levers to something that cuts across infrastructures and entangles the planet, often beyond access and control. Elisa Giaccardi interviews DCODE fellows Rob Collins, Yuxi Liu, and Grace Turtle and guest authors Christian Andersen (The Metainterface, MIT Press) and Ksenia Fedorova (Tactics of Interfacing, MIT Press) to explore how designers might navigate these new terrains.

Listen to this episode from Logged On – A Dazed Podcast on Spotify. Welcome to the inaugural episode of Logged On, the new podcast from Dazed with Günseli Yalcinkaya about all things internet culture, from memes to emerging trends, Deep Web conspiracy theories and beyond.Episode 1 – The MidWe're living in a mid-ocracy. Today, culture is algorithmically optimised for mass appeal, serving up platters of pre-packaged cool – whether that’s a Deftones tee, a Fred Again mix or a wavy mirror via your Instagram explore page. On this episode, we're joined by Shumon Basar, the co-author of two books, ‘The Age Of Earthquakes’ and ‘The Extreme Self’, and the author of recent essays on lorecore and endcore, to discuss why everything suddenly feels so... mid. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to this episode from DCODE Conversations on Spotify. What are the opportunities and challenges of using human and moral values for the design of principled algorithms? Based on current trends of value-based frameworks, this podcast engages three experts in discussions of design and everyday experiences of algorithmic values such as fairness, transparency, and inclusiveness for future urban mobility and beyond. Rachel C. Smith presents this conversation, where DCODE fellows Ignacio Garnham, Mireia Yurrita and Francesco Maria Turno interview our guests Minna Ruckenstein (Professor at Helsinki University), Kars Alfrink (PhD candidate at Delft University of Technology) and Aleksej Veselij (Senior data engineer at Accenture).

Listen to this episode from Interdependence on Spotify. In advance of the premiere of her new AI fueled gesamtkunstwerk “Gorgon”, the artist Marianna Simnett joins us to dive into mythology, mimicry and the saga of convincing tools to do what you want them to!“Gorgon” (commissioned by LAS) will take place at HAU Berlin from the 13-17th Septemberhttps://www.las-art.foundation/programme/gorgonFollow Marianna Simnett: https://www.instagram.com/mariannasimnett/Collect OGRESS on Foundation: https://foundation.app/collection/ogress

Listen to Interdependence on Spotify. Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, optimistic about the 21st Century. Patrons and Channel holders get access to weekly episodes as they drop, the free feed is time delayed