Net 0++: AI Thirst in a Water-Scarce World w/ Julie McCarthy
Last year, Elon Musk’s xAI built a data centre in Memphis in 19 days — and the local government only found out about it on the 20th day. How?Julie McCarthy and her team at NatureFinance have just rele...
16 Maj 202553min
Short: Open AI for...Countries? w/ Marietje Schaake
This is another Computer Says Maybe short, this time with Marietje Schaake (author of The Tech Coup), to discuss OpenAI’s recent announcement: they want to partner with governments all around the worl...
15 Maj 202513min
Short: What Just Happened to 23andMe? w/ Jenny Reardon
Personalised genotyping company 23andMe just went bankrupt — what’s gonna happen to all that genetic data?We brought back genomics professor Jenny Reardon to discuss the crushing void that was 23andMe...
13 Maj 202514min
Terra Nullius: Who Owns the Skies? w/ Julia Powles
This is our second Terra Nullius episode. As a reminder this means ‘Nobody’s Land’ — an infamous legal fiction from the age of Empire. In this episode we ask: who owns the skies?We get into it with la...
9 Maj 202552min
Terra Nullius: Who Owns Outer Space? w/ Heather Allansdottir
This is our first in a series called Terra Nullius. Huh? It’s Latin for ‘Nobody’s Land’. We will be exploring how rules are made for contested territory. If a land belongs to no one, does that mean it...
2 Maj 202548min
How to (Actually) Keep Kids Safe Online w/ Kate Sim
Child safety is a fuzzy catch-all concept for our broader social anxieties that seems to be everywhere in our conversations about the internet. But child safety isn’t a new concept, and the way our po...
25 Apr 202548min
AI Can’t Fix This: Live in London
Last week Alix was in London to talk UK politics and broligarchy with four amazing guests:Martha Dark from Foxglove gave us the history and implications of the NHS/Palantir partnership of horrorMatt M...
11 Apr 20251h 15min
