Short: Open AI for...Countries? w/ Marietje Schaake

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 world to build ‘democratic AI rails’ — sounds bad!

Computer Says Maybe Shorts bring in experts to give their ten-minute take on recent news. If there’s ever a news story you think we should bring in expertise on for the show, please email pod@saysmaybe.com

Marietje Schaake is a non-resident Fellow at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center and at the Institute for Human-Centered AI. She is a columnist for the Financial Times and serves on a number of not-for-profit Boards as well as the UN's High Level Advisory Body on AI. Between 2009-2019 she served as a Member of European Parliament where she worked on trade-, foreign- and tech policy. She is the author of **The Tech Coup.**

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Making Myths to Make Money w/ AI Now

Making Myths to Make Money w/ AI Now

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Is Computer Science Made for Dudes? w/ Felienne Hermans

Felienne Hermans calls herself an ‘involuntary ethnographer of computer science’. She studies the culture behind programming, and challenges the dominant idea that learning to program has to be painfu...

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The Elephant in the Algorithm: Live from ZEG Fest in Tbilisi

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Is Digitisation Killing Democracy? w/ Marietje Schaake

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AI in Gaza: Live from Mexico City

This episode contains some descriptions of torture methods, automated human targeting by machines, and psychological warfare throughoutLast week Alix hosted a live show in Mexico City right after REAL...

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Logging Off w/ Adele Walton

Logging Off w/ Adele Walton

Adele Walton’s new book *Logging Off: The Human Cost of our Digital World* is out NOW — for this week’s episode Alix sat down with her to discuss the book, and what pushed her to write it.Adele shares...

6 Juni 202543min

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Short: Sam Altman’s World w/ Billy Perrigo

Sam Altman is doing another big infrastructure push with World (previously Worldcoin) — the universal human verification system.We had journalist Billy Perrigo on to chat what’s what with World. Is Sa...

4 Juni 202520min

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The Collective Intelligence Project w/ Divya Siddarth and Zarinah Agnew

Most of the time we interview people who say No to AI. In this interview, Georgia and Alix talk to two people who look at AI and ask How and For What. And lots of other questions too.Divya Siddarth an...

30 Maj 202554min

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