Madeleine Finlay
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2,428 appearances
36 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Madeleine Finlay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I remember saying to Ian, I I just I don't think we're gonna do AI.
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I don't think it's gonna be a big thing.
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It's not gonna take off because we can't afford to.
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We can't afford to use all this water.
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water and renewable electricity for these systems that like ultimately we don't need.
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Um
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And I just was like I just can't see that we would do it.
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And I remember you sort of raising an eyebrow at me like, How could you be so naive?
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Um But
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But I think it was you know, and you were saying, uh you know, of course of course this will happen and you know, you were so right because
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I I think that, as you said, these kind of engineers very often are so divorced from the consequences of the things that they're doing.
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How to get round those existential feelings?
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I I don't know because there is an element of AI that feels very out of control, that it's happening and that it's inevitable and that we have no way to kind of rein this thing in.
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I would love to hear your perspective on whether you think this can be reined in.
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But one one fant uh this will never happen, but one fantasy that I always have is I I think it would be incredible if for every uh prompt that you put in you saw the carbon cost.
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And then and then you would think, do I need to create a picture of a cat on a rainbow?
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No existential dread.
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Go on do a happy note.
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Maybe a finding that could unlock a new understanding of our universe.
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So today, have scientists finally caught a glimpse of dark matter?
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