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Hosted by Alix Dunn · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 133 episodes
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Technology is changing fast. And it's changing our world even faster. Host Alix Dunn interviews visionaries, researchers, and technologists working in the public interest to help you keep up. Step outside the hype and explore the possibilities, problems, and politics of technology. We publish weekly.
Alix Dunn hosts Computer Says Maybe, a technology show with 133 episodes published.
We’re taking a short summer break and will be back on your feed in a couple of weeks. But we've got news before we go. Catch up on our most recent series: Computer Says Kill & REAL Resistance We're cooking up something n
In Memphis, companies don't come in to invest in the city. They come in to extract from its people and its land, no matter how high the human cost. That's exactly what xAI did when they decided to build one of the larges
In 2013, taxi drivers were beginning to notice something unusual: unmarked, black cars were cutting them off in taxi lines and picking up their passengers. Little did these drivers know that those black cars were the sta
Mariel Garcia-Montes and Crofton Black share their stories and investigations that uncover the backdoor deals that allow the surveillance industry to thrive under the guise of ‘security’. If you have nothing to hide, you
Paola Ricaurte Quijano, Fernanda Rodriguez, Angela Chukunzira, and Kauna Love Malgwi make it clear that colonial powers have never gone away. The people and technology powering them have just changed, and one of them is
Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth? More like this: The Toxic Relationship Between AI & Journalism
How do we stand up against the human rights violations that exist in the gruesome relationship between the business of AI and war? More like this: Computer Says Kill: The AI Safety Circus w/ Heidy Khlaaf In our final ins
The AI industry loves to talk about safety, but their version of safety is putting us at risk. More like this: The Palestine Laboratory w/ Antony Loewenstein For our second to last series episode of Computer Says Kill, w
Israel has a long history of making new technological weapons of war and exporting them to the world. They have used Palestine as a testing ground to show how new tools can enable mass killing. And they are banking that
The Israeli military is using data, surveillance, and AI to kill noncombatants in Southern Lebanon. More like this: Computer Says Kill: Collapsing the Chain w/ with Matt Mahmoudi This week, we're kind of taking a break f
Anthropic’s AI systems have been used in illegal American invasions in Iran and Venezuela. They have partnered with Musk in the disastrous Memphis Colossus facility. And yet! News coverage, some civil society, and a lot
Academia, Big Tech, and the military are caught in a sordid love triangle — and their love language is money. More like this: Computer Says Kill: The Blank Check to Beat China w/ Lis Siegel For part five of Computer Says
The US is in a race to ‘beat China’ at AI. Or is it? What if I told you that powerful actors in the US have built the story of an all-or-nothing race to get what they want? More like this: Computer Says Kill: A License f
RightsCon has just been cancelled by the Zambian government with no word to the organizers, five days before it was set to begin. RightsCon is the biggest annual global gathering of the digital rights community. Every ye
Military spending on AI is a triple black box: How is AI being used in the military? Who is winning these contracts and what are they worth? And what is the military’s end-game here? More like this: How a Calculator Comp
Precision weapons are meant to make warfare more exact. But what happens when the executive branch uses precision as an excuse to make more war and target with less and less accountability for accuracy? More like this: C
How does a country wage war using LLMs? Oh and WHY? More like this: AI in Gaza: Live from Mexico City In Computer Says Kill Ep #1 we are joined by Matt Mahmoudi. The US Department of War is leaning heavily on AI technolo
This is Computer Says Kill, a new series on series focused on tracing the people, decisions, and systems that have recklessly ushered AI into the business of war. What we’re watching play out— from AI military chatbots t
What better way than movies to help us process the world. Brian Merchant shares how our collective anxieties turn into cultural products. More like this: One Filmmaker’s Fight Against AI w/ Valerie Veatch Brian Merchant,
Naomi Klein has spent her career studying political movements — and she thinks progressives are doing better than we think. Because the fascists are scared. More like this: To be Seen and not Watched w/ Tawana Petty In h
Brian Merchant
Author and Technology Columnist · L.A. Times
1 appearance on this show
Naomi Klein
celebrated author, professor and activist · Compass Beverly Hills Office
2 appearances on this show
Anat Shenker-Osorio
messaging strategist, author, Words to Win By host · ASO Communications
1 appearance on this show
Adam Becker
author of More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity · Cockroach Labs
1 appearance on this show
Timnit Gebru
Distributed AI Research Institute
1 appearance on this show
Audrey Tang
Taiwan’s first Digital Minister, nonbinary cabinet minister · Taiwan government
2 appearances on this show
Dr Abeba Birhane
cognitive scientist, Time Magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People in AI honoree
3 appearances on this show
Meredith Whittaker
President · Signal Foundation
1 appearance on this show
Cory Doctorow
bestselling novelist, journalist, and EFF Special Advisor · Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 appearances on this show
Ben Collins
Google Sheets Developer & Data Analytics Instructor · The Onion
1 appearance on this show
Bridget Read
author
1 appearance on this show
Mike Masnick
Techdirt
1 appearance on this show
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