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Why Are Migrants Becoming AI Test Subjects? With Petra Molnar

Your Undivided Attention - June 20, 2024 09:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Climate change, political instability, hunger. These are just some of the forces behind an unprecedented refugee crisis that’s expected to include over a billion people by 2050. In response to this growing crisis, wealthy governments like the US and the EU are employing novel AI and surveillance...

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Former OpenAI Engineer William Saunders on Silence, Safety, and the Right to Warn

Your Undivided Attention - June 07, 2024 21:03 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
This week, a group of current and former employees from OpenAI and Google DeepMind penned an open letter accusing the industry’s leading companies of prioritizing profits over safety. This comes after a spate of high profile departures from OpenAI, including co-founder Ilya Sutskever and senior ...

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War is a Laboratory for AI with Paul Scharre

Your Undivided Attention - May 23, 2024 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Right now, militaries around the globe are investing heavily in the use of AI weapons and drones.  From Ukraine to Gaza, weapons systems with increasing levels of autonomy are being used to kill people and destroy infrastructure and the development of fully autonomous weapons shows little signs ...

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AI and Jobs: How to Make AI Work With Us, Not Against Us With Daron Acemoglu

Your Undivided Attention - May 09, 2024 21:30 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Tech companies say that AI will lead to massive economic productivity gains. But as we know from the first digital revolution, that’s not what happened. Can we do better this time around? RECOMMENDED MEDIA Power and Progress by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson Professor Acemoglu co-authored a ...

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Jonathan Haidt On How to Solve the Teen Mental Health Crisis

Your Undivided Attention - April 11, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Suicides. Self harm. Depression and anxiety. The toll of a social media-addicted, phone-based childhood has never been more stark. It can be easy for teens, parents and schools to feel like they’re trapped by it all. But in this conversation with Tristan Harris, author and social psychologist Jo...

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Chips Are the Future of AI. They’re Also Incredibly Vulnerable. With Chris Miller

Your Undivided Attention - March 29, 2024 23:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Beneath the race to train and release more powerful AI models lies another race: a race by companies and nation-states to secure the hardware to make sure they win AI supremacy.  Correction: The latest available Nvidia chip is the Hopper H100 GPU, which has 80 billion transistors. Since the fir...

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Future-proofing Democracy In the Age of AI with Audrey Tang

Your Undivided Attention - February 29, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
What does a functioning democracy look like in the age of artificial intelligence? Could AI even be used to help a democracy flourish? Just in time for election season, Taiwan’s Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang returns to the podcast to discuss healthy information ecosystems, resilience t...

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U.S. Senators Grilled Social Media CEOs. Will Anything Change?

Your Undivided Attention - February 13, 2024 22:45 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Was it political progress, or just political theater? The recent Senate hearing with social media CEOs led to astonishing moments — including Mark Zuckerberg’s public apology to families who lost children following social media abuse. Our panel of experts, including Facebook whistleblower France...

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Taylor Swift is Not Alone: The Deepfake Nightmare Sweeping the Internet

Your Undivided Attention - February 01, 2024 10:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
Over the past year, a tsunami of apps that digitally strip the clothes off real people has hit the market. Now anyone can create fake non-consensual sexual images in just a few clicks. With cases proliferating in high schools, guest presenter Laurie Segall talks to legal scholar Mary Anne Franks...

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Can Myth Teach Us Anything About the Race to Build Artificial General Intelligence? With Josh Schrei

Your Undivided Attention - January 18, 2024 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
We usually talk about tech in terms of economics or policy, but the casual language tech leaders often use to describe AI — summoning an inanimate force with the powers of code — sounds more... magical. So, what can myth and magic teach us about the AI race? Josh Schrei, mythologist and host of ...




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The Philtre

Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier - December 30, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes
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The Tall Pine-Tree

Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier - December 29, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes
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The Discovery

Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier - December 28, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes
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The Chantry Leap

Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier - December 27, 2023 00:00 - 9 minutes
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The Wood of Morois

Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier - December 26, 2023 00:00 - 11 minutes
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Ogrin the Hermit

Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier - December 25, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes
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The Ford

Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier - December 24, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes
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How Will AI Affect the 2024 Elections? with Renee DiResta and Carl Miller

Your Undivided Attention - December 21, 2023 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
2024 will be the biggest election year in world history. Forty countries will hold national elections, with over two billion voters heading to the polls. In this episode of Your Undivided Attention, two experts give us a situation report on how AI will increase the risks to our elections and our...




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2023 Ask Us Anything

Your Undivided Attention - November 30, 2023 10:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
You asked, we answered. This has been a big year in the world of tech, with the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence, acceleration of neurotechnology, and continued ethical missteps of social media. Looking back on 2023, there are still so many questions on our minds, and we know you h...

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The Promise and Peril of Open Source AI with Elizabeth Seger and Jeffrey Ladish

Your Undivided Attention - November 21, 2023 20:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
As AI development races forward, a fierce debate has emerged over open source AI models. So what does it mean to open-source AI? Are we opening Pandora’s box of catastrophic risks? Or is open-sourcing AI the only way we can democratize its benefits and dilute the power of big tech?  Correction:...

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A First Step Toward AI Regulation with Tom Wheeler

Your Undivided Attention - November 02, 2023 04:30 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
On Monday, Oct. 30, President Biden released a sweeping executive order that addresses many risks of artificial intelligence. Tom Wheeler, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, shares his insights on the order with Tristan and Aza and discusses what’s next in the push toward ...

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No One is Immune to AI Harms with Dr. Joy Buolamwini

Your Undivided Attention - October 26, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.3K ratings
In this interview, Dr. Joy Buolamwini argues that algorithmic bias in AI systems poses risks to marginalized people. She challenges the assumptions of tech leaders who advocate for AI “alignment” and explains why some tech companies are hypocritical when it comes to addressing bias.  Dr. Joy Bu...