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
AI Safety’s Spiral of Urgency w/ Shazeda Ahmed
Are you tired of hearing the phrase ‘AI Safety’ and rolling your eyes? Do you also sometimes think… okay but what is technically wrong with advocating for ‘safer’ AI systems? Do you also wish we could...
14 Feb 202555min
Live Show: Paris Post-Mortem
Kapow! We just did our first ever LIVE SHOW. We barely had time to let the mics cool down before a bunch of you requested to have the recording on our pod feed so here we are.ICYMI: this is a recordin...
12 Feb 202546min
Defying Datafication w/ Dr Abeba Birhane (PLUS: Paris AI Action Summit)
The Paris AI Action Summit is just around the corner! If you’re not going to be there, and you wish you were — we got you.We are streaming next week’s podcast LIVE from Paris on YouTube — register her...
7 Feb 20251h 3min
DEI Season Finale: Part Two
This week Alix continues her conversation with Hanna McCloskey and Rubie Clarke from Fearless Futures and we take a whistle-stop tour of the past 5 years. We start in 2020 with the disingenuous but hu...
31 Jan 202544min
