Technoskeptic Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Holly Elmore of Pause AI
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Art Keller speaks with Holly Elmore, the Executive Director of the AI safety non-profit Pause AI. We cover a lot of ground, from the disturbing AI sch...
Dr. Roman Yampolskiy on AI Safety
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we speak with Dr. Roman Yampolskiy. Dr Yampolskiy is a tenured Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science at the...
Tim Kasser Talks Materialism
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Kasser spent over two decades studying the relationship between materialism and well-being and penned the highly cited book, The High Price of Mat...
Catherine Steiner-Adair on Tech and Child Development
29 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Steiner-Adair is a clinical and developmental psychologist whose empathic 2013 book The Big Disconnect was one of the first big warning sign...
Tomaso Poggio of MIT's Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Courtesy MITMo Lotman interviewed Tomaso Poggio, Director of MIT’s Center for Minds, Brains, and Machines. Poggio explained the basics of how AI mod...
William Powers-Journalist and Media Critic
10 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In mid-2017, Mo Lotmon spoke to journalist and media critic Bill Powers. Powers authored a bestselling book, Hamlet’s BlackBerry, about stepping awa...
Danielle Allen on Civics Education and Democracy
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Allen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University and Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Kenn...
Dr. David Greenfield on Internet Addiction
21 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mo Lotman speaks with psychiatrist, professor, and author David Greenfield, founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction. Dr. Greenfie...
Will Reusch
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We were delighted to speak to Will Reusch, a high school teacher with 15 years of experience ranging from under-resourced inner-city schools to elite ...
Narayan Liebenson
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Narayan Liebenson, a guiding teacher at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, speaks to Mo Lotman about the benefits of...
Tim Wu
09 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Wu is the Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia University, and a renowned scholar on communications networks, having...
Michaela Headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We recently ran a lengthy print interview with Michaela Headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh about her school’s Digital Detox program and parents’ s...
David Krakauer
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Krakauer is President and Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute, a private, not-for-profit, independent research and education...
Cathy O'Neil on Algorithms
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mo Lotman interviews mathematician Cathy O’Neil. O’Neil worked in the private sector to make the algorithmic systems that automatically judge and...
"Geek Heresy" Author Kentaro Toyama
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kentaro ToyamaAt the Technsoskeptic Magazine, we often find that technologists provide the most salient critiques of technology’s effects on society...
The TS Magazine Podcast talks Deep Work with Cal Newport
29 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cal Newport, Deep Work, Productivity and Focus Get full access to The Technoskeptic Magazine at technoskeptic.substack.com/subscribe