Digital Kallipolis

As social media shape our relationships and AI enters our most intimate conversations, what happens to our capacity for human connection?

Dr. Martine Alonso Marquis, an expert in human relationships, explores this question in this episode of Digital Kallipolis. Martine is a former foreign policy adviser at the European Parliament and holds a Ph.D. from Sciences Po Paris. For the past 15 years, she has helped individuals and leaders around the world build meaningful relationships.

In this conversation, we examine what Martine calls the “Great Disconnect” and discuss how social media, technology, and AI are reshaping relationships. Martine also shares her tips for reconnecting with one another.

Ultimately, Martine invites us to have “real conversations where nobody is trying to optimize something.”

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“Remember [Our] Humanity, and forget the rest...” —Russell–Einstein Manifesto, 1955

What happens to public knowledge when an increasing share of what we read, search for, and learn is mediated by artificial intelligence (Al)?

On Digital Kallipolis, I am joined by Zach McDowell for a conversation about Wikipedia, Al, the digital commons, and the changing ways in which we produce, access, and share knowledge.

Zachary J. "Zach" McDowell is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), whose work examines how information is created, shaped, accessed, and consumed in the digital age.

His research spans Wikipedia, digital media, information equity, technology policy, and the ethics of internet and Al technologies, with particular attention to which knowledge becomes visible, which remains excluded, and why.

Zach previously served as a research fellow with Wiki Education and is the co-author, with Matthew A. Vetter, of Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality, a book that examines how Wikipedia represents reality while grappling with systemic bias, information inequality, and the underrepresentation of marginalized topics.

Here you can watch our conversation: https://youtu.be/MtTBwiwYHG8

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THANKS for stopping by! “Remember [Our] Humanity, and forget the rest...” —Russell–Einstein Manifesto, 1955

Clement Ngu is a Brussels-based journalist and contributing writer for Nikkei Asia, covering EU-Asia relations, technology, trade, and geoeconomics. His work explores how global politics, digital policy, and economic power are shaping and being reshaped by AI development and deployment.

In this conversation we answer the ultimate question: What is the global AI race really about: technology, money, power, regulation, or the future of human society?

During his visit to Digital Kallipolis, Clement explains that AI is not only a technology story, but also a geopolitics, supply-chain, standards, and power story, and that the U.S., China, and Europe operate within different ‘AI cultures’. The U.S. is more founder- and capital-driven; China has a coordinated state strategy and massive deployment capacity; and Europe has standards, rights, and regulatory integration, but could benefit from more courage and cooperation in the realm of AI, just as it did with aviation when creating Airbus. Watch and hear our entire conversation.

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Thanks for stopping by! “Remember [Our] Humanity, and forget the rest...” Russell–Einstein Manifesto, 1955

This conversation with Ziyue Wang explores some of the most pressing questions at the frontier of AI safety: what it means for powerful AI systems to be safe enough to deploy, how companies model misuse risks such as cyberattacks, CBRN threats, manipulation, loss of control, and malicious actors, and why problems like AI sandbagging remain difficult to detect and prevent. Ziyue also reflects on the broader societal impact of AI, the gap between capability development and safety work, the role of regulation in the EU, U.S., and China, and the personal journey of pivoting into frontier AI safety.

Ziyue is an AGI safety researcher and Tech Lead. He works on frontier safety mitigation, with a focus on safeguards against cybersecurity threats, biological risks, and other high-stakes misuse scenarios. Daily he responds to the question: how to make increasingly powerful AI systems safe enough to deploy responsibly? Before moving into AI safety, Ziyue built strong technical foundations through work in quantitative research, software engineering, large language models, and coding. He also writes about AGI safety and the future of AI through his Substack,

Belay the Future: https://ziyuewang.substack.com/

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Thanks for stopping by! “Remember [Our] Humanity, and forget the rest...” —Russell–Einstein Manifesto, 1955

In this episode, we meet Adrian Wisnicki, University of Nebraska AI Institute Co-Director, a Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), Faculty Fellow of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, and the Digital Humanities Program Coordinator at UNL.

In this conversation, Adrian familiarizes us with the concept of Digital Humanities and why do they matter. He discusses his experience with social media and takes on how they could be a more welcoming place. In addition, he focuses on the AI’s impact on society and academia. 

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In this episode, we meet Esosa Ohonba, JD, MPH, a founder and CEO of Layman, a justice-tech company building AI tools that help individuals and lawyers navigate civil legal processes. A graduate of NYU School of Law, Esosa launched Layman to expand access to justice for self-represented litigants and underserved communities. His work bridges law, public health, and technology to close the civil justice gap. Here is Esosa’s visit to Digital Kallipolis. Thanks for stopping by!

In this first episode of Digital Kallipolis, we meet Maida Maya Salkanović, a journalist, anti-misinformation and anti-deepfake upstander, and human rights activist. In 2020, Maya and I discussed the future of labor and digitalization at a futuristic conference more than two years before the generative AI boom that began in November 2022. Now, in 2026, we return to that conversation to explore the challenges AI brings to journalism and human rights, how it can fuel gender-based violence, and what we can do to make this digital era safer for all of us. Here is Maya’s visit to Digital Kallipolis. Thanks for stopping by!