Maya and I talk about [digital] flesh, [digital] intimacies, and how writing in and out of academic contexts helps us feel through our best ideas. We wonder what we owe the world in terms of representation and identity, and whether it’s okay to offer up an altered version of ourselves. Recorded Mar 30, 2023. Released April 20, 2023.

Between Flesh: Tech Degrees of Separation

https://13thgwangjubiennale.org/minds-rising/ganesh/

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Gina and I talk about her recent article(s) on Wired.com that track violence against women and girls on the internet. We discuss how the internet should be regulated for safety, and question the limits of technological solutions. Recorded Feb 20, 2023. Released April 10, 2023.

Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy

https://www.mctd.ac.uk/

The Internet Is at Risk of Driving Women Away

https://www.wired.com/story/online-harassment-women-internet/

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Zane and I delve deep into the materialities of the virtual world, and try to imagine who the Metaverse (in all its possible iterations) is for — with some attention to our uncomfortable, sweaty bodies, fussing with headsets and sensory overload. We conclude that Big Tech’s visions of the future are a bit stale. Recorded Jan 20, 2023. Released March 30, 2023.

The Metaverse

https://about.meta.com/what-is-the-metaverse/

Decenterland

https://decentraland.org/download/

Zane’s work

https://www.zanegriffintalleycooper.com/

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Sasha Luccioni explains LLM to be their parameters and why these matter when thinking about the social and environmental ramifications of AI. Recorded Feb 8, 2022. Released March 20, 2023.

Publications (under “Alexandra Luccioni”)

https://www.sashaluccioni.com/publications/

ICLR 2023 Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning https://www.climatechange.ai/events/iclr2023

We’re getting a better idea of AI’s true carbon footprint by Melissa Heikkilä https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/14/1063192/were-getting-a-better-idea-of-ais-true-carbon-footprint

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Hank Gerba was once one of Sophia The Robot’s handlers, and in this episode he reveals the magic (deception) behind social robots that promise to be one day autonomous. Recorded Jan 24, 2023. Released March 10, 2023.

Sophia

https://www.hansonrobotics.com/sophia/

The Most Realistic Humanoid Robots in The World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjHNFP_773k&ab_channel=Motech

Creators of famous Sophia robot reveal AI robotics for children, elderly | Nightline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRHdnkUjcZg&ab_channel=ABCNews

Sophia the Robot and Jimmy Sing a Duet of "Say Something"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-zyTlZQYpE&ab_channel=TheTonightShowStarringJimmyFallon

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Jake Pitre and I discuss the concept of the Metaverse and the future it wants. Recorded Jan 18, 2023. Released March 1, 2023.

Who Wants the Metaverse?

https://daily.jstor.org/who-wants-the-metaverse/

Awkward Meetings

https://twitter.com/satyanadella/status/1455624165201887234

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Gabriele de Seta and I have a great conversation about deepfakes in a Chinese context. One of the big insights of this episode is that we may have to one day soon consider the agency of replicas in digital (human) form. Recorded Dec 15, 2022.

Huanlian, or changing faces: Deepfakes on Chinese digital media platforms

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565211030185

 危 特朗普与蓬佩奥向中国示爱的绝密视频流出 我爱你中国

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av754473414/

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Eryk Salvaggio and I discuss what GANs, stable diffusion and neural networks are, and we take listeners through the process of “reading” an AI image. Recorded Dec 13, 2022.

How to Read an AI Image: The Datafication of a Kiss

https://cyberneticforests.substack.com/p/how-to-read-an-ai-image

This person does not exist

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com

@Suhail They say it's "soulless"

https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1575527122449231872?s=20&t=NDTtKG0ET9c42oRmf3Q5-A

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Tamara Kneese and I have a truly delightful conversation about death and the personal data that complicates estate planning and digital doubles. The main takeaway for me from this episode — and there were many — is that we scrutinize our (and others’) likeness in digital form in ways that we didn't have to with memorabilia in material form.

Data Infrastructures of the Dead

https://www.heliotropejournal.net/helio/data-infrastructures-of-the-dead

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