Latest International security Podcast Episodes
S8E8: The promise and risks of generative AI technology for businesses with Maria Santacaterina
Age of AI - July 21, 2024 21:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMaria Santacaterina and Medlir discuss the impact of generative AI on businesses. They ask the question whether the massive financial investment in generative AI will pay off for these businesses. Is the promise of AI, hype or real? Links: https://www.santacaterinaconsulting.com/ https://www....
S8E7: Japan’s Military AI Strategy
Age of AI - July 14, 2024 21:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn July 2024, Japan’s Ministry of Defense unveiled its first basic policy document on the use of artificial intelligence and a comprehensive strategy to enhance Japan’s cyber defense capabilities. In this episode Dr. Ryo Hinata-Yamaguchi of the University of Tokyo, joins us to talk about how AI ...
S8E6: AI for Peace with Dr. Paige Arthur
Age of AI - July 07, 2024 21:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir sits down with Dr. Paige Arthur, Director of Global Programming at Columbia Global, and co-author of AI for Peace (with Branka Panic), to discuss how recent AI innovations can contribute to conflict prevention and peace. They also explore the opportunities and challenges that technologies...
S8E5:The Diogenes Awards | An Annual Discussion of AI in Film and TV
Age of AI - June 30, 2024 21:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThis week is our annual Diogenes Awards, where we look at AI in film and television (and sometimes other amusing tangents). We discuss the content that we enjoyed over the last 18 months, and that we think our audience will enjoy the most. We also give our top recommendation in each category. S...
S8E5:The Diogenes Awards | An Annual Discussion of AI
Age of AI - June 30, 2024 21:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThis week is our annual Diogenes Awards, where we look at AI in film and television (and sometimes other amusing tangents). We discuss the content that we enjoyed over the last 18 months, and that we think our audience will enjoy the most. We also give our top recommendation in each category.
S8E4: S8E4 Mihalis Kritikos on Governing AI
Age of AI - June 23, 2024 21:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsChris talks with Mihalis Kritikos of the European Commission on Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Trustworthy Governance of AI. Mihalis sheds light on how he got started working on AI governance during the Covid-19 pandemic, the ethics of AI, the EU AI Act, and also AI surveillance in the workp...
S8E4: Mihalis Kritikos on Governing AI
Age of AI - June 23, 2024 21:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsChris talks with Mihalis Kritikos of the European Commission on Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Trustworthy Governance of AI. Mihalis sheds light on how he got started working on AI governance during the Covid-19 pandemic, the ethics of AI, the EU AI Act, and also AI surveillance in the workp...
2 - Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe
The International Security Podcast - June 18, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsGuests: Şener Aktürk is Professor of International Relations at Koç University in Istanbul, Türkiye. International Security Article: Şener Aktürk, “Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe,” International Security, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Spring 2024), pp....
S8E3: How Ukraine uses AI to Fight Disinformation
Age of AI - June 16, 2024 21:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsChris talks to Maya Sobchuk, GGI non-resident fellow and researcher at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo about her work on AI and disinformation. In this episode Maya reflects on the history of Russian disinformation campaigns against Ukraine, dis...
S8E2: Conflict Forecasting with Hannes Mueller
Age of AI - June 09, 2024 21:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir is joined by Dr. Hannes Mueller to discuss recent developments in conflict prevention. Specifically, we examine how artificial intelligence can help governments detect risk early, predict the likelihood of new conflicts, and prevent older ones from re-emerging. https://conflictforecast.o...
S8E1: Cool New Things You Can Do with AI or: How YD Learned to Start Worrying and Love Long Context Windows
Age of AI - June 02, 2024 21:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsFor our season opener, Young Diogenes has a chat with Chris and Medlir about some cool new things large language models can now do for us. Specifically, why some companies, like Google with Gemini, are choosing to concentrate on increasingly larger context windows (i.e., the size of the text, mu...
S7E8: Misinformation and Disinformation in the age of AI
Age of AI - March 24, 2024 21:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir asks Lukas Andriukaitis, Board member of Lithuania-based Civic Resilience Initiative (CRI), what it means to work and live at the frontier of the new misinformation / disinformation space. They discuss the current atmosphere in the region and beyond, in terms of threat of misinformation/d...
1 - A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine?
The International Security Podcast - March 20, 2024 10:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 26 ratingsGuest: Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science at Cornell University. International Security Article: This podcast is based on Matthew Evangelista, “A ‘Nuclear Umbrella’ for Ukraine? Precedents and Possibilities for Postwar European Security,” Intern...
S7E7: The EU AI Act with Luca Bertuzzi
Age of AI - March 17, 2024 21:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsLuca Bertuzzi joins Medlir for a discussion on the EU AI Act passed by the European Parliament on March 13th. Among other things, they discuss the likely impact of the law on innovation and governance within the EU and abroad, as well as criticisms that the act fails to address concerns regardin...
S7E6: The Politics and Governance of Big Data and AI
Age of AI - March 10, 2024 22:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsAndrej Zwitter and Oskar Gstrein share with Chris what they will be keeping an eye out for in the AI regulatory space in 2024. They also discuss their latest work on the politics and governance of big data and artificial intelligence and their newly published Handbook on the Governance Politics ...
S7E5: AI and Military Technologies
Age of AI - March 03, 2024 22:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir sits down with Dr. Raluca Csernatoni and Dr. Marijn Hoijtink to discuss the escalating ‘innovation race’ among corporate giants. They discuss AI’s contribution to the rise in power of the private tech sector vs. the state, as well as the ‘existential threat’ and ‘superintelligence’ narra...
S7E4: AI and Wargaming with Baptiste Alloui-Cros
Age of AI - February 25, 2024 22:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir is joined by Baptiste Alloui-Cros, founder of the Strand Simulations Group and a wargame designer, to discuss how AI is likely to impact how we think, strategize, and prepare for war. Links: https://strandsimulationsgroup.com/ https://www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/does-artif...
S7E3: The Birth of Digital Human Rights with Rebekah Dowd
Age of AI - February 11, 2024 22:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsThis week Medlir and our guest Rebekah Dowd, an academic, scholar, and author of The Birth of Digital Human Rights: Digitized Data Governance as a Human Rights Issue in the EU, explore how and why the EU became a leader in the realm of digital human rights. Links: https://link.springer.com/boo...
S7E2: AI, Digital Humanities and Virtual Memory Spaces
Age of AI - February 04, 2024 22:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsIn this episode Chris talks to Arnaud Kurze of Montclair State University, currently a Digital Studies Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Arnaud has carried out groundbreaking research in digital humanities, memory studies, and transitional justice and offers his insi...
S7E1: Introducing AI Global Governance with Joachim Koops
Age of AI - January 28, 2024 22:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir and Chris speak with Dr. Joachim Koops of the Global Governance Institute and Leiden University to discuss the launch of the AI Global Governance program. They further discuss the challenges associated with the question of governance more broadly. Links: https://www.globalgovernance.eu...
S6E8: Trends and Announcements in AI for 2023
Age of AI - December 17, 2023 22:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsYoung Diogenes (YD), Medlir and Chris discuss trends and developments in AI for 2023 (Democratization, Personalization, Twinning, GenAI, Multi-modal AI, AI ethics). We also discuss advances in behavioral AI for communications security, weather forecasting, material science, and discussion of th...
S6E7: Innovations in Deterrence through AI, with Emma Morrison and Justin Lynch
Age of AI - December 03, 2023 22:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir sits down with Emma Morrison and Justin Lynch to discuss ways AI can help analysts in understanding significant events, attributing actions, and presenting usable information to decision-makers, while reflecting on how AI may adversely affect a country's ability to signal credibly, or und...
S6E7: Governing AI to Advance Shared Prosperity with Katya Klinova
Age of AI - November 19, 2023 22:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir discusses the impact of AI on development with Dr. Katya Klinova, Head of AI, Labor, and the Economy division of the Partnership on AI. There she oversees (among other things) the AI and Shared Prosperity Initiative, asking how to make AI progress in the workforce more inclusive, as well...
S6E6: Governing AI to Advance Shared Prosperity with Katya Klinova
Age of AI - November 19, 2023 22:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir discusses the impact of AI on development with Katya Klinova, Head of AI, Labor, and the Economy division of the Partnership on AI. There she oversees (among other things) the AI and Shared Prosperity Initiative, asking how to make AI progress in the workforce more inclusive, as well as ...
S6E5: AI Governance with Justin Bullock
Age of AI - November 05, 2023 22:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir is joined for a wide-ranging conversation on the shifting landscape of AI governance by Dr. Justin Bullock, a Senior Researcher at Convergence Analysis, in the UK. Dr. Bullock brings a wealth of expertise in public administration, artificial intelligence (AI), organizational theory, and m...
S6E5: AI Governance with Justic Bullock
Age of AI - November 05, 2023 22:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir is joined for a wide-ranging conversation on the shifting landscape of AI governance by Dr. Justin Bullock, a Senior Researcher at Convergence Analysis, in the UK. Dr. Bullock brings a wealth of expertise in public administration, artificial intelligence (AI), organizational theory, and m...
S6E4: Recent developments in disinformation through AI
Age of AI - October 22, 2023 21:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsYD, Chris, and Medlir discuss some recent uses of AI, to quickly and easily generate political influence campaigns. Many of us are already aware of the rapidity and volume at which AI can generate content. But in this episode, we discuss some of the ways in which AI quality is improving, as w...
S6E3: Joseph Vukov on Religion and AI
Age of AI - October 08, 2023 21:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir is joined by Dr. Joseph Vukov, Associate Director of the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University Chicago, whose research explores questions at the intersection of ethics, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, and at the intersection of science and religion....
S6E2: AI and Disarmament with Branka Marijan
Age of AI - September 24, 2023 21:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsMedlir Mema is joined by Dr. Branka Marijan, a Senior Researcher at Project Ploughshares, where she leads the research on the military and security implications of emerging technologies. Her research interests include trends in warfare, civilian protection, use of drones, and civil-military rela...
S6E1: Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East
Age of AI - September 17, 2023 21:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHow do states use digital tools to deceive, disseminate disinformation, and deepen authoritarianism? In this episode Chris talks with Marc Owen Jones about digital authoritarianism in the Middle East, who sheds light on this question and much more in a far-reaching discussion. Show Notes https:...
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