
Episode 44: AI Characters with Lukas Wilde
What happens when we treat AI not just as a tool, but as a character? In this episode of Off Center, guest host Jill Walker Rettberg sits down with Lukas Wilde to explore the evolution of AI personas....
16 Mar 40min

ALGOpod #6: Santtu Raisanen
In episode six of ALGOpod, Gabriele de Seta and Hanna Lauvli geek out with Santtu Raisanen, doctoral researcher at the Center for Consumer Society at The University of Helsinki, about the pervasive co...
9 Mar 44min

Episode 43 - AI and the Humanities with Davis Schneiderman
What happens when you drop generative AI into the middle of a liberal arts curriculum? This week on Off Center, Scott sits down with Davis Schneiderman at Lake Forest College to find out. We dive into...
2 Mar 55min

ALGOpod #5: Anya Shchetvina
In episode five of ALGOpod, Gabriele de Seta is joined by Anya Shchetvina, PhD fellow with the Literary and Epistemic History of Small Forms research group at the Humboldt University in Berlin, to hea...
23 Feb 40min

The AI Update XIX - World Models
What are “World Models,” and why should we care? Could AI really understand reality? Scott and Jhave sit down to explore the rise of World Models - the "engines" of machine intuition -to discuss how q...
16 Feb 17min

Episode 42 - 18th Century AI Slop with Hazel Wilkinson
Did you know slop was a problem long before AI? This episode of Off Center takes us all the way back to the 18th century as today’s host, Jill Walker Rettberg, discuss the precursors to AI slop with H...
9 Feb 34min

The AI Update XVIII - Musical Futures
Following Universal Music Groups' settlement and partnership of Udio, Scott and Jhave sit down to discuss the potential future of music in a world with AI.
2 Feb 32min

Christmas Special Holiday Extravaganza Show
Look what just dropped down the chimney: Why, it's the first Off Center Christmas Special Holiday Extravaganza Show! Featuring music, human and otherwise, lessons in Norwegian folklore, Christmas beer...
17 Des 20251h 9min




















