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Episodes
Doug Belshaw on digital and AI literacies
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk to Doug Belshaw, co-founder of We Are Open cooperative, an old friend and sometime sparring partner – I’m sure he won’t ...
Talking with Katie Conrad about AI and human rights
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some time ago I invited Katie (Kathryn) Conrad onto a discussion panel in the Generative Dialogues series, and while this covered some essential groun...
Audrey Watters on AI realism
23 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Audrey Watters returns to the pod for a chat about ‘AI realism’, and how we are all trudging up the long, weary slope of the AI adoption curve whe...
Remi Kalir on student writing
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Remi Kalir is Associate Director of Faculty Development and Applied Research at Duke University and Associate Director of the University’s CARADITE ...
Alistair Alexander on unsustainable AI
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the first of several interviews about the impact of generative AI on planetary resources, I talk to Alistair Alexander, an academic and climate act...
Audrey Watters on AI state capture
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Enterprise AI goes full state capture and as Elon Musk’s freshmen engineers get their hands on all the data of the US federal government, Helen a...
Audrey Watters on eugenics and robber barons
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we sink further into the pit that is the Musk/Trump presidency, who better to survey the hellscape on the way down than Audrey Watters, ed tech’s...
Eamon Costello on human wisdom
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk with Eamon Costello, writer and thinker and educator, editor of a special issue on Metaphors of AI, and host of an upcoming sym...
Catherine Cronin and Laura Czerniwicz on HE for good
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I meet with the editors of Higher Education for Good to discuss how generative AI may be changing the prospects for an equitable and s...
Dan MacQuillan on decomputing
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk to Dan MacQuillan, Lecturer in Creative Computing at Goldsmiths, and author of Resisting AI: an Anti-fascist Approach to Artifi...