Category: Podcasts
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Mutiny – on Being More Pirate
‘Move slowly… and don’t break people’ It was an absolute pleasure to join Alex Barker and Sam Conniff on their Be More Pirate podcast – which has been released just this past week: Sam wrote Be More Pirate back in 2018, and has been incredibly kind about my own book Mutiny, which I released way…
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God-Like on BBC Talkback
Lovely to be invited onto William Crawley’s Talkback show on BBC Radio today. William has a PhD in philosophy, and was ordained too, and is an excellent presenter. The show was digging into the issues presented by the government’s announcement yesterday of the AI Action Plan. What I’ve been concerned about is that this plan…
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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…