In this episode, Olivia Guest, Iris van Rooij and Andrea Reyes Elizondo discuss why it’s important to the overall purpose and significance of the university to resist the uncritical adoption of AI in academia. The risk of AI adoption is that it’ll hollow out the institutions first, and then society at large. Recorded Feb 27, 2026. Released March 16, 2026.

Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia

Olivia Guest, Marcela Suarez, Barbara Müller, Edwin van Meerkerk, Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Ronald de Haan, Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Mark Blokpoel, Natalia Scharfenberg, Annelies Kleinherenbrink, Ileana Camerino, Marieke Woensdregt, Dagmar Monett, Jed Brown, Lucy Avraamidou, Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez, Felienne Hermans & Iris van Rooij

https://philarchive.org/rec/GUEATU

*the 2nd quote read on the episode:

Guest, O. (2025). What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.19960

We've been here before! What do you mean?

Olivia Guest, 18 February 2026

https://olivia.science/before/

Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming

https://irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/summer-school-critical-ai-literacies-for-resisting-and-reclaiming/ and https://olivia.science/ai/ 

Academic Collaborations and Public Health: Lessons from Dutch Universities' Tobacco Industry Partnerships for Fossil Fuel Ties. Zenodo. 

Knoester, L., Pereira, A., Vanheule, L., Reyes Elizondo, A., Littlejohn, A., & Urai, A. (2025).

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15274865

Why AI transparency is not enough

https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/why-ai-transparency-is-not-enough 

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In this episode, Daisy Maldonado, Annie Ersinghaus, Gilberto Manzanarez and I discuss on-the-ground opposition to two data centers being built against the will of local residents: Project Jupiter (Oracle/Open AI) in New Mexico, and the largest data center in California -- in Imperial Valley. This conversation was part of: Powering AI from the Borderlands: Organizing Against Data Centers, facilitated by Dustin Edwards. Recorded Feb 24, 2026. Released Monday March 2, 2026.

Powering AI from the Borderlands: Organizing Against Data Centers

https://cal.sdsu.edu/humtech/events

Gilberto Manzanarez on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/valleimperialresiste/

Resistance to data centers rises on the border

https://www.hcn.org/articles/resistance-to-data-centers-rises-on-the-border/

"Jupiter Watch" videos on Project Jupiter in New Mexico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi_phIsUpRg&t=5s

The Water Is Coming ¡Ya Viene La Agua!

Annie Ersinghaus’s short doc on the politics of the Rio Grande (Project Jupiter is pulling from underground water along the Rio Grande)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgab5ICoWJI&t=430s 

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In this episode, Adam Becker and I talk about our AI overlords and their “philosophical” influences — mostly eugenics-based pseudoscience and bad readings of sci-fi that make tech billionaires feel like they’ve earned their billions by being the smartest people on the planet… while ruining the planet. Recorded Feb 13, 2026. Released Feb 16, 2026.

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity (2025) https://mitpressbookstore.mit.edu/book/9781541619593 

BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172zsskmkss5ll (start at 39:15)

Rolling Stone Q&A: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tech-billionaires-adam-becker-1235381649/

Dreaming Against the Machine

http://dreamingagainstthemachine.com/

Forthcoming: Adam Becker’s new podcast website (bookmark this now for later!)

Mentioned in our conversation:

I Am An AI Hater by Anthony Moser

https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html 

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Great theorists make you see the world differently forever after. This is the case with my guests for this episode, Zoë Sofoulis (Zoe Sofia) and Ingrid Richardson — brilliant scholars helping us rethink containers and containment as a feminist strategy to rework worldly narratives about what holds, filters, leaks. This conversation was a special honour for me. Recorded January 23, 2026. Released February 2, 2026. 

Containment Technologies of Holding, Filtering, Leaking (2025)

https://meson.press/books/containment/ 

Zoë Sofia Container Technologies (2000)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227700296_Container_Technologies 

Shoutouts to:

Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan (Duke University Press) https://dukeupress.edu/re-understanding-media 

Insufferable Tools: Feminism Against Big Tech https://www.dukeupress.edu/insufferable-tools 

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Paperback –1994 https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262631594/understanding-media/ 

And much more…

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In this first episode of 2026, I speak with Am Johal and Matt Stern, authors of the "O My Friends, There Is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology" (2025) to better understand what friendship means these days... at the "end of ecology". Is friendship political? Can an AI chatbot be a friend? Recorded Jan 16, 2026. Released Jan 19, 2026.

Matt Hern, Am Johal O My Friends, There is No Friend (pdf)

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/022e1f6f-f14a-4c11-a94c-c95610919f8c/9783839470268.pdf

Below the Radar podcast:

https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast.html

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New Cover art by Oona Ode!

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José Marichal is exceptionally good at making the case for why we should all become algorithmic problems and also much more reflective of our engagement with social media. We are altered by recommendation algorithms -- and we should probably think now about how to renegotiate these terms? Happy holidays! Recorded Nov 27. Released Dec 22, 2025.

You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem

Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract

https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/you-must-become-an-algorithmic-problem 

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In this episode I speak with friends-neighbours-advocates Meg Rintoul and Kathryn Barnwell about current plans in place to build an AI data center in Nanaimo, B-C. -- and allowing ourselves to write a new story about the future. Recorded Nov 27. Released Dec 8, 2025.

'Very scary': Nanaimo neighbours have water worries about new data centre

https://www.reddit.com/r/nanaimo/comments/1oo24s3/very_scary_nanaimo_neighbours_have_water_worries/

'An Island concern': Nanaimo water advocates want new data centre stopped

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OQzc2bhtXw

CBC: AI-related data centres use vast amounts of water. But gauging how much is a murky business

https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data-centre-canada-water-use-9.6939684

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In this episode, I got to walk through a recent report called “the high stakes of tracking menstruation” with its author, Stefanie Felsberger, a sociologist of tech & gender. I cannot express enough how much there is to learn from this topic that can help us understand the bigger landscape of tech promises and harms. Recorded Oct 23, 2025. Released Nov 24, 2025.

The High Stakes of Tracking Menstruation - MCTD Cambridge

https://www.mctd.ac.uk/femtech-high-stakes-tracking-menstruation/ 

https://www.mctd.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/The-High-Stakes-of-Tracking-Menstruation_Accessible.html 

Menstrual apps harvest data that ‘puts women’s safety at risk’

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/menstrual-apps-harvest-data-that-puts-womens-safety-at-risk-bd0srb8mt? 

Period: The Real Story of Menstruation (by Kate Clancy)

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691191317/period? 

Website

https://www.stefaniefelsberger.com

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In this episode, I speak with Justin Hendrix, the CEO and Editor of Tech Policy Press, a nonprofit media venture concerned with the intersection of technology and democracy. We talk about ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), surveillance, and AI. Recorded Oct 21, 2025. Released Nov 10, 2025. 

Republican Budget Bill Signals New Era in Federal Surveillance

DEAN JACKSON, JUSTIN HENDRIX / JUL 2, 2025

https://www.techpolicy.press/republican-budget-bill-signals-new-era-in-federal-surveillance/

Amidst Violent Immigration Raids, DHS Turns to Big Tech to Silence Dissent

JENNA RUDDOCK / OCT 3, 2025

https://www.techpolicy.press/amidst-violent-immigration-raids-dhs-turns-to-big-tech-to-silence-dissent/ 

AI Surveillance on the Rise in US, but Tactics of Repression Not New

DIA KAYYALI / MAR 26, 2025

https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-surveillance-on-the-rise-in-us-but-tactics-of-repression-not-new/

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Host of Tech Won't Save Us and acclaimed tech critic, author, and international speaker, Paris Marx joins me for this episode where we discuss AI futures in a Canadian context: the idea of a "sovereign cloud", an "AI minister", and much more! Recorded Oct 15, 2025. Released Oct 20, 2025.

Website

https://parismarx.com/

Tech Won't Save Us

https://techwontsave.us/

Disconnect

https://disconnect.blog/im-writing-a-new-book/

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