Full Stack Feminism and the Digital Humanities with Caroline Bassett and Sharon Webb
From using computers to process the work of Thomas Aquinas to using facial recognition to compare portraits of Shakespeare, computational techniques have long been applied to humanities research. Thes...
6 Jun 202335min
Hot Take: The Future of Life's Call for a Pause on 'Giant AI' - Doomsday or Distraction?
Welcome to our new format: The Good Robot Hot Takes! In these fun, lively, conversational episodes, we (Eleanor and Kerry) discuss some of the biggest issues in tech, from ChatGPT, and the sexy fembot...
30 Mai 202334min
Feminism, Disability, and the Politics of Technology with Laura Forlano
In this episode we chat to Laura Forlano, Associate Professor of Design at the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology. This is a special episode because Laura reads us some of her wor...
23 Mai 202321min
The Good Robot LIVE! from Berlin
This special bonus episode was recorded at the AI Anarchies conference in Berlin. We held a workshop exploring with participants what good technology means for them, and why thinking in terms of ‘good...
9 Mai 202326min
The Politics of Captions with Louise Hickman
In this episode we chat to Louise Hickman, an activist and scholar based at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge. Louise talks to us about stenography, the p...
25 Apr 202329min
Science Fiction in Translation with Regina Kanyu Wang and Emily Jin
In this episode we discuss the new generation of Chinese science fiction with two of the genre's most brilliant translators, editors, writers and researchers. They both played a key role in The Way Sp...
11 Apr 202327min
AI Policy Between the UK and Africa with Bridget Boakye
In this episode we talk to Bridget Boakye, the artificial intelligence (AI) policy leader at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Bridget is an expert in how AI is impacting Africa and the majo...
28 Mar 202330min
Voice Recognition Technologies and Border Control with Pedro Oliviera
In this episode we talk to Pedro Oliveira, a researcher and sound artist based at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin. Pedro does amazing work investigating border control technologies that listen to a...
14 Mar 202331min
