Medical Skepticism & More with Alaina Bamfield
This week with comedian Alaina Bamfield, we check in on ChatGPT's joke-writing capabilities, Émile's former anarchoprimitivist sympathies, medical skepticism, and whether we might have made enough tec...
28 Aug 48min
Enshittification and Reverse Centaurs: Cory Doctorow on How Tech Platforms Took Over the Economy
In this episode, we chat with Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, journalist, and commentator on technology. We discuss the phenomenon of platform enshittification, its relationship to an unregulat...
21 Aug 52min
Technology and Palestinian Liberation with Stanford SJP
This week we're joined by Vu, an undergraduate at Stanford University and representative of Stanford SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine) to discuss the role of technology in the ongoing genocide o...
15 Aug 43min
Bickering Over Galaxies: "AI 2040" and the Pursuit of Cosmic Utopia
This week, Kate and Émile discuss AI 2040, a new document by some of the same authors behind AI 2027. The authors argue, if AI companies come to their senses and prioritize AI safety, the result could...
24 Jul 1h 1min
UNLOCKED: Surveillance Pricing with Zephyr Teachout
Subscribe to our Patreon for more bonus content at patreon.com/c/DystopiaNow! On this now-unlocked episode, we talked to antitrust hero and Fordham University law professor Zephyr Teachout about surve...
15 Jul 59min
Why Life on Mars Would Probably Suck
We return from our brief summer break chatting about Émile's latest article of interest, "Here's Why SpaceX's Mission is Bullshit" in the wake of its recent IPO and question the assumptions underlying...
9 Jul 51min
Protopia Futures (ft. Monika Bielskyte)
Does fiction inform what we think the future should look like? Sci-fi and futurism has typically told us the inevitability of technology and dystopian cyberpunk imaginaries. Monika Bielskyte joins us ...
19 Jun 1h 2min
Pope Leo's Anti-AI Encyclical
This week, we go over the merits and demerits of the Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas and its co-presentation with Christopher Olah of Anthropic, the company branding itself as mos...
11 Jun 39min
