Emmie, Research Associate, Yale Digital Ethics Center, and Akky explore whether using polite language with AI matters, and spotlight the bright future of social media for the next wave of digital natives.

⚠️ Academic alert – anthropomorphise – to give human traits to non‑humans. Akky was like "Hold up! my ears missed that acoustically!" 😂

Check out her blog ⁠⁠The Ethical Reckoner

Ever imagined dropping your physical self and living entirely online?

We chat with Emmie Hine, AI governance specialist who takes us back to those early days on BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) to AI-based chatbot to talk to the dead.

Hit play on Part 1 to follow her journey, from diving deep into tech to mastering Chinese, and see how those paths came together to shape her work in AI ethics.

Check out her blog ⁠The Ethical Reckoner

This is the second half of a discussion with 'Mad Professor'🧑‍🔬

Shintaro and Akky speculate 🤔

“reading, writing, arithmetic, video-editing and computermodelling could be the contemporary liberal arts”,

which could be the life-saver in the digital age to counter-dance against digitality.

Are these views too elitist and optimistic? Or should we still dream on?

Here is the must-read👉 ⁠Counter-Dancing Digitality

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Meet the digital world's 'Mad Professor'🧑‍🔬

Teaching Media Studies and Computation at Humboldt University in Berlin, Shintaro Miyazaki is pioneering 'counter-dancing digitality': a radical approach to transformingour digital lives. 💃

Shintaro urges us to dive into literature, music, film, software, games, and particularly computer modelling to participate in counter-dancing raves 👯‍♂️  Tune in to hear about his journey with techno music and computation and how these experiences shaped his groundbreaking concept of counter-dancing digitality.

Here is the must-read👉 ⁠Counter-Dancing Digitality  

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 This is the second half of a discussion with Lavinia (a.k.a. Love), a social entrepreneur based in Basel, Switzerland.She is launching her new social music project, Rainbow Cafe 👉 ⁠Teatime Vinyl⁠.

Love discusses euthanasia in relation to her father's ongoing situation. (Additional info: Active euthanasia is illegal in Switzerland; however, providing the means for dying is legal as assisted suicide.)

This is the list of films that Akky mentioned during the talk:

• Irene, 2023, 13 min (Sweden, Germany, Switzerland)
• Avec, 2014, 16 min (Estonia, Japan)

What is the relationship between analogue music and social media?

Today’s guest, Lavinia (a.k.a Love), is a social entrepreneur based in Basel, Switzerland. She initiates her new social-music project, Rainbow-cafe 👉Teatime Vinyl

Lavinia talks about her passion for analogue music and how we could potentially address the instant music/food/relationship we face.