AI Can’t Fix This: Live in London
Last week Alix was in London to talk UK politics and broligarchy with four amazing guests:Martha Dark from Foxglove gave us the history and implications of the NHS/Palantir partnership of horrorMatt M...
11 Apr 20251h 15min
Technology Nationalism in India w/ Divij Joshi
Amidst the scrambling of geopolitics, there is increasing conversation and momentum for the concept of tech sovereignty. It basically means that countries should build their own technology rather than...
4 Apr 202550min
AI Assistant or AI Boss? w/ Data & Society
Two years ago, we were told that ‘prompt engineer’ would be a real job — well, it’s not. Is generative AI actually going to replace and transform human labour, or is this just another shallow marketin...
28 Mar 202543min
Regulating Privacy in an AI Era w/ Carly Kind
This week Alix is speaking with her long-time friend and collaborator Carly Kind, who is now the privacy commissioner of Australia. Here’s something you may be embarrassed to ask: what does a privacy ...
21 Mar 20251h
Dogwhistles: Networked Transphobia Online
This week producer Georgia joins Alix to discuss something huge that we’ve yet to go deep on: the prevalence of trans misogyny online. This episode is jam-packed with four amazing guests to guide us t...
14 Mar 202552min
VCs Are World Eaters w/ Catherine Bracy
This week Alix interviewed Catherine Bracy on her book World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalising the Economy. Support Catherine’s work and buy it NOW.Venture capital wasn’t always how it is t...
7 Mar 202547min
Power Over Precision w/ Jenny Reardon
Alix’s conversation this week is with Jenny Reardon, who shares with us the history of genomics — and the absolutely mind-melting parallels it has with the trajectory of the AI industry.Jenny describe...
28 Feb 20251h 2min
The Taiwan Bottleneck w/ Brian Chen
Do you ever wonder how semiconductors (AKA chips) get made? Or why most of them are made in Taiwan? Or what this means for geopolitics?Luckily, this is a podcast for nerds like you. Alix was joined th...
21 Feb 202537min
