Computer Says Maybe

This week we’re wallowing in post-election catharsis: Alix and Prathm process the result together, and discuss the implications this administration has for technology politics.How much of a role will ...

8 Nov 202440min

For this pre-election special, Prathm spoke with law professor Spencer Overton about how this election has — and hasn’t — be impacted by AI systems. Misinformation and deepfakes appear to be top of th...

1 Nov 202451min

For our final episode in this series on the environment, Alix interviewed Karen Hao on how tough it is to report on environmental impacts of AI.The conversation focusses on two of Karen’s recent stori...

1 Nov 202426min

In our third episode about AI & the environment, Alix interviewed Sherif Elsayed-Ali, who’s been working on using AI to reduce the carbon emissions of concrete. Yes, that’s right — concrete.This may s...

25 Okt 202433min

This week we are continuing our AI & Environment series with an episode about a key piece of AI infrastructure: data centres. With us this week are Boxi Wu and Jenna Ruddock to explain how data centre...

18 Okt 202431min

This week we’re kicking off a series about AI & the environment. We’re starting with Holly Alpine, who just recently left Microsoft after starting and growing an internal sustainability programme over...

11 Okt 202442min

In 2017 Google’s urban planning arm Sidewalk Labs came into Toronto and said “we’re going to turn this into a smart city”.Our guest Bianca Wylie was one of the people who stood up and said “okay but… ...

4 Okt 202449min

What if we could have a public library for compute? But is… more compute really what we want right now?This week Alix interviewed Teri Olle from the Economic Security Project, a co-sponsor of the Cali...

27 Sep 202424min