Category: Podcasts
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Interview with Professor John Caputo
As part of the series I did with Tripp Fuller about the book, I interviewed some leading thinkers across tech, governance, and philosophy about how they saw AI, and the issues I talk about in God-Like. It was a huge delight and honour to interview Professor John Caputo. He remains one of the sharpest thinkers…
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Take to the streets! (with chocolate)
It’s hard to know how to process the final run up to the US election. It seems so absurd and unreal – everything drawn in hyper-caricature, no sense allowed to be made, single apostrophes being asked to carry the weight of a whole democracy, and a stunt in a garbage truck more powerful a signifier…
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‘Falling asleep at the wheel’ – a cautionary tale about good AI
I’ve been away for a break up in the French Alps – a wonderful time and place, and a great chance to mulch while hiking from bright sunshine up over the snow line about Getting High, and God-Like and the connections between them. So I was delighted when my good friend Jonathan got in touch…
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AI-Cadabra: say it’s AI and make it so | Talking AI with Caputo
In the last post I set out how we see a sense of ‘magic’ being ascribed to AI systems – especially Generative AI – and this is no more clear than in the icons that tend to get used for them. I’ve been in New Mexico this week for a family wedding, so have been…
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There’s nothing we can do to stop AI stealing all our jobs! Except… urrm…
Atlantic magazine unearthed an extraordinarily candid video interview a couple of weeks ago, in which Brian Wu – a senior engineer at OpenAI responded to a question about AI’s impact on work: ‘I guess it’s kind of deeply unfair that, like, a group of people can build AI and just take everyone’s jobs away, and,…
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Process This: Artificial Intelligence
Absolutely delighted to announce that, through the next few weeks, I’ll be curating a series of conversations around the book with the very excellent Tripp Fuller. This will begin this Wednesday with a live-stream conversation at 6pm UK time which you will be able to watch on YouTube here – or via the embed below:…