
Short: RightsGone? Why Zambia May Have Pulled the Plug on RightsCon
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 ...
1 Mai 13min

Computer Says Kill: A License for Unlimited War w/ Amos Toh
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: Ho...
1 Mai 47min

Computer Says Kill: How a Calculator Company Reshaped Modern Warfare w/ Jeff Stern
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 accurac...
24 Apr 37min

Computer Says Kill: Collapsing the Chain w/ with Matt Mahmoudi
How does a country wage war using LLMs? Oh and WHY?More like this: AI in Gaza: Live from Mexico CityIn Computer Says Kill Ep #1 we are joined by Matt Mahmoudi. The US Department of War is leaning heav...
16 Apr 49min

Fantasy Factory: Luddite Horror w/ Brian Merchant
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 Vea...
10 Apr 35min

How to Scare a Fascist w/ Naomi Klein
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...
3 Apr 44min

Fantasy Factory: One Filmmaker's Fight Against AI w/ Valerie Veatch
The way artists make art matters. And some artists, like filmmaker Valerie Veatch, are exploring what role AI has in the craft of filmmaking.More like this: Fantasy Factory: AI Supervillains w/ Anat S...
27 Mar 49min






















